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by strangemonad 1115 days ago
philosophical nit picking here, I would say value-aligned rather than moral-aligned.
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As in economics, this begs the question of "whose value."
> philosophical nit picking here, I would say value-aligned rather than moral-aligned.

How is trying to distinguish morals from values not philosophical nit-picking?

EDIT: The above question is dumb, because somehow my brain inserted something like “Getting beyond the …” to the beginning of the parent, which…yeah.

To be fair, he did admit it is philosophical nit-picking.
If I may be so naive, what's supposed to be the difference? Is it just that morality has the connotation of an objective, or at least agent-invariant system, whereas values are implied to be explicitly chosen?