“It would be a good idea to invite those with ideas deviant from the lesswrong orthodoxy to out themselves by posting their heretical thoughts in public so we may excise them later” 😈
For those unable to recognise jokes in text form (a lot of us), this is a joke.
Hey fair enough, no argument if you find it useful. I dont really see much of a distinction
Morality usually refers to what i would call a particular moral system, a set of first order normative commitments, what you actually believe is right / wrong or good / bad. It’s the object level rules “killing is bad,” “honesty is good.”
Ethics is in common parlance the “study” or “science” of figuring out the deeper reason something is right or wrong. Unfortunately in my model that boils down to “large groups of people think it is good or bad, right or wrong”. Hey all of the wrong models have to live somewhere!
Im still thankful to the philosophers who study ethics, it’s a wonderful thing to try to get to the roots of things and I wouldn’t have been able to understand without reading their work.