I’ve said a number of things about good and evil at Overcoming Bias, and I decided to gather my comments together in one place. I’ve extracted the following quotes out of their surrounding context. The full original discussion can be found in Rationality Quotes 7 and Morality Is Overrated. Arguments similar to mine appear in [...]
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein
The traditional view is that science has nothing to say about ethics and morality. Science tells us what is and morality tells us what ought to be. You can’t get ought [...]
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The second most important research problem is understanding cooperation and how to improve cooperation. Most of the problems that face us today (and in the past) can be traced back to conflict between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual (climate change, pollution, [...]
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