[throwaway290]

> Who said anything about a formula?

In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)

> It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species

True

> keep us in the game"

That's a formula right there my friend

> Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.

?

> And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.

or perhaps the concept of "self-limiting" is meaningless.

[grantmuller]

>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)

I have no idea what you're talking about, so I guess I'm not "one of them".

> That's a formula right there my friend

No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor.

[throwaway290]

> I have no idea what you're talking about

Read the top level comment and "objective anchors". It's always great to know the context before replying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712541

There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking.

> No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor

Formula IS a metaphor... I wrote "formula or fixed law" ... what do you think we're talking about, actual math algebra?

[grantmuller]

> There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking.

I believe I'm saying the same thing, and summing it up in the word "evolutionary". I have no idea what you're talking about when you suggest that I'm perhaps "one of those people". I understand the context of the thread, just not your unnecessary insinuation.

> Formula IS a metaphor... I wrote "formula or fixed law" ... what do you think we're talking about, actual math algebra?

There is no "is" here. There "is" no formula or fixed law. Formula is metaphor only in the sense that all language is metaphor. I can use the word literally this context when I say that I literally did not say anything about a formula or fixed law, because I am literally saying there is no formula or fixed law when it comes to the context of morality. Even evolution is just a mental model.

[throwaway290]

> you suggest

no, I asked. because it was unclear.