@robinhanson Most moral claims, really. Its the source of the old metajoke about "irregular conjugations" (I flavor the story, you embellish, he lies)
@robinhanson Basically, for any human interaction that could have a value judgment applied to it, we will always have value-flavored near synonys that run the full gamut of valuation, so that we can sound reasonable applying any valuation to any circumstance or act.
@robinhanson This is basic Robert Anton Wilson stuff. Primates need ways to signal/quorum sense with other primates about where the coalitional alignment schelling points are. Our language and internal emotions are generated based on intuitions about alliances, which are emergent.
@robinhanson Therefore "bad people" (bad coalitional investments) will always have bad reasons for doing things / will always do things 'the wrong way', and implying so w our language emits signals that others quorum-sense to determine what judgments they should make/signals they should emit
@robinhanson Ppl with more existing coalitional clout will "weigh more" in the quorum sensing, but bc its highly nonlinear the whole mess can flip very rapidly.
@robinhanson Seriously, nonlinear dynamics is a v fertile ground to explore for human valuation processes. Its really remarkable that our values are as stable as they are; human culture has developed remarkable social technologies to dampen/reinforce oscillations.
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