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by ShellfishMeme 1032 days ago
What does "truth" even mean here? All of these things are about society, culture and the human experience. There's no universal truth to be found there.

The best I can do is apply the categorical imperative influenced by my cultural context, upbringing and personal experiences.

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Well for one thing a useful definition of “true” would let us decide ethical problems without lapsing into navel gazing until the sun blows up.
The problem I have here with your statement, is you have no idea what your definition even entails energy/entropy wise. Just defining the axioms here will take much more time and energy than we have until the sun blows up.

Then the combinatorial explosions of ought conditions to step your simulation forward means you'll need Grahams number of time/entropy.

I just saw today that Innuendo Studios has an excellent video on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF98ii6r_gU

"You Can't Get Snakes from Chicken Eggs"

True ethics don’t exist