Followup to: Morality as Fixed Computation I keep trying to describe morality as a "computation", but people don't stand up and say "Aha!" Pondering the surprising inferential distances that seem to be at work here, it occurs to me that when I say "computation", some of my listeners may not hear the Word of Power that I thought I was emitting; but, rather, may think of some complicated boring unimportant thing like Microsoft Word. Maybe I should have said that morality is an abstracted idea
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