Realization

[flwyd]

Moral rules are heuristics which often, but not always, guide agents to right action.

I think I've realized this before, so by the heuristic of repeated-discovery, it's more likely to be true :-)

I really am getting productive work done. It just takes my program several minutes to run, so my "code, test, refine" loop is slow today.

Comments

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

Moral heuristics make a lot of sense if some of them are innate -- it would greatly explain what's often referred to as "common sense morality." But heuristics obviously include learned moral rules, like Kantianism, which I find much more attractive if it isn't the only guide.