> Perhaps we have yet to find the ‘periodic table of moral elements’ because we are trying to write an algorithm to compute a function which is uncomputable?
Its not uncomputable. Its just that humans are bad at philosophy. If something feels vauge and hard to understand, its not uncomputable, nor is it down to the heisingberg uncertainty principle.
If it doesn't involve infinite amounts of information, or telling if arbitrary turing machines halt, its not uncomputable.
Good != long term survival. Its possible to live for aeons and hate every minute of it. Also, whose long term survival? Yours? All humans? All mammals? All humans + some sufficiently smart AI's?
> Perhaps we have yet to find the ‘periodic table of moral elements’ because we are trying to write an algorithm to compute a function which is uncomputable?
Its not uncomputable. Its just that humans are bad at philosophy. If something feels vauge and hard to understand, its not uncomputable, nor is it down to the heisingberg uncertainty principle.
If it doesn't involve infinite amounts of information, or telling if arbitrary turing machines halt, its not uncomputable.
Good != long term survival. Its possible to live for aeons and hate every minute of it. Also, whose long term survival? Yours? All humans? All mammals? All humans + some sufficiently smart AI's?