The Meaning of Right — LessWrong
Continuation of: Changing Your Metaethics, Setting Up Metaethics Followup to: Does Your Morality Care What You Think?, The Moral Void, Probability is Subjectively Objective, Could Anything Be Right?, The Gift We Give To Tomorrow, Rebelling Within Nature, Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom, ... (The culmination of a long series of Overcoming Bias posts; if you start here, I accept no responsibility for any resulting confusion, misunderstanding, or unnecessary angst.) What is morality? What does the word "should", mean? The many pieces are in place: This question I shall now dissolve. The key—as it has always been, in my experience so far—is to understand how a certain cognitive algorithm feels from inside. Standard procedure for righting a wrong question: If you don't know what right-ness is, then take a step beneath and ask how your brain labels things "right". It is not the same question—it has no moral aspects to it, being strictly a matter of fact and cognitive science