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Have you seen Hans-Georg Moeller's work on amorality and the "moral fool"? He takes the Nietzschean critique of morality and identifies moral *language* as the problem (using Wittgenstein's lecture on ethics). If you strip the content of moral language and just talk about how to optimise human flourishing, for example, it no longer manipulates but rather makes an argument based on evidence and an objective, measurable value. It's a good way out of the problems of moral grandstanding and coercion that you're discussing here. This critique of Sam Harris covers the main ideas of the theory: https://youtu.be/NGt0I5MbQSI?si=kG9-4oB0F1Ekav3K

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Brett Andersen's avatar

No I haven't heard of that but I will check it ou!

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Neoliberal Feudalism's avatar

Hi Brett, nice post and glad to see you're back. You may appreciate this old archived post by Spandrell on this topic, which he calls "bioleninism", if you havn't seen it yet: https://archive.ph/IllH2

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Graham L's avatar

Brilliant. Sorry I don't currently have anything more intelligent or articulate to offer. Just glad to see you back.

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Brett Andersen's avatar

Thanks Graham.

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GrapplingwithReality's avatar

So happy to see you back Brett. Cheers and best of luck on your future endeavors from someone who has gleaned many insights from your work!

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OldManFlappyNuts👹's avatar

I thought the thumbnail was a partially pealed banana for a sec

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Brett Andersen's avatar

Tarantula, banana peel... I get them mixed up all the time.

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Brett Andersen's avatar

I’m going to write about what I think is interesting and important. Your approval or disapproval isn’t interesting or important to me unless you have specific objections to specific claims.

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Tom Morgan's avatar

Of course, I love you either way.

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