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You mean this idea?

> A moral person is someone who cooperates with other moral people, and who refuses to cooperate with immoral people.

It's just so naive. A slightly cleaned up version of ordinary tribalism: "we are good and they are bad", with no further justification. Anybody can claim their own tribe is the moral one this way.



Oh, I certainly agree. But a naive algorithm can be used to predict the opinions of the naive.


Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you.

I was mostly reacting because I remember reading that blog post when it came out and thinking it was a neat idea, and now I'm recoiling in horror at how terrible it sounds.


The article actually discusses this very argument, though in a slightly tangential way.




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