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This brings up another moral grey zone in me. If it’s a moral improvement in outcome and it came from the inside, I’m glad it happened, regardless of other circumstances.... This is also almost universally the opinion of developmental theorists. There’s disagreement about how to relate it all, but the standard wilberian take is that there are a few lines of intelligence that develop relatively independently.... - KC...
That's an intriguing proposition for conceptualizing morality. The idea of defining morality as a binary system of 'good' and 'bad' actions, and then attempting to quantify these actions to track progress or regress, offers a clear, measurable framework.The appeal of such a... hmmm I don't see anger and love as opposing one another. they seems to be able to both exist simultaneously and motivate one another. both can drive actions that have moral/ethical implications that are either good or bad.... Read the full post- onTranscript from Tim Urban AMA: Big History, Emergence, and the Future: From the Big Bang to AI and Civilization’s Stakesby
Tim: I think there's a spectrum. On the far end, "I am a fundamentally worthless, bad person"—we don't want that. Move up the spectrum: "I am acting like a bad person....