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Christina's avatar

Hello, Mark! I found your Substack from a comment you made on Astral Codex Ten. I think about entropy all the time, apparently just like you, and hadn't heard of Jeremy England, so grateful for that introduction. I appreciate the ambition and audacity of your writing!

This essay reminds me a bit of Leah Libresco's path. Pressed to answer where she thought moral law came from in her metaphysics, she blurted out: "I guess Morality just loves me or something." "It turns out ... I believed that the Moral Law wasn’t just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth."

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Great essay, Mark. I agree with you. As you know, I went through a similar exercise in applying evolution to morality and concluded that I had been wrong when young to dismiss evolutionary ethics as immoral; in fact, properly understood, you end up at almost the same place as traditional morality. There always seems to be convergence.

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