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The Trouble With "Good" — LessWrong
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x The Trouble With "Good" — LessWrong Affect Heuristic Fuzzies Heuristics & Biases Emotivism Rationality Frontpage 101 The Trouble With "Good" by Scott Alexander 17th Apr 2009 8 min read 137 101 Related to: How An Algorithm Feels From Inside , The Affect Heuristic , The Power of Positivist Thinking I am a normative utilitarian and a descriptive emotivist: I believe utilitarianism is the correct way to resolve moral problems, but that the normal mental algorithms for resolving moral problems use emotivism. Emotivism, aka the yay/boo theory, is the belief that moral statements, however official
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