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Rationally Speaking #181 - William MacAskill on "Moral Uncertainty"

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The Importance of Model Uncertainty

Uncertainty would be my uncertainty about what this idealized version of myself would end up valuing after all of these improvements to reasoning and to knowledge, including having all the empirical facts. Or maybe just having the empirical facts I have right now. It does depend on your meta ethics though. So it might be that you have a very simple subjectivism according to which what you ought to do is just what you want now. And I don't think that's a very plausible meta ethical view but it would have an implication about what it means to be morally uncertain.

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