🧩 Philosophy Sep 6, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle

Overcoming Bias
View Channel →
Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle
Source ↗ 👁 12 💬 0
I’ve previously outlined three ways we might fix cultural drift. But each way seems quite a big ask, and I’ve been pondering what is our biggest obstacle here. What I’ve come up with is this: we will need to learn to stop treating conscience as if it were direct evidence on morality.Evidence can be more vs less direct. For example, in a murder trial, direct evidence may include bodies, bullets, or videos, while testimony of people about these things, or by those who saw the mur

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

📰
Corrigibility should not be the only target
LessWrong · 20h ago
📰
Dialogue with Richard Ngo on Alignment, Hierarchical Integrity of Human-AI systems, Revolution, and Power
LessWrong · 22h ago
How to Run Better Research With Agent Fleets
LessWrong · 1d ago
GPT-6.1 Sol is One Sentence Away From Collaborating: Other Models Need More Help
LessWrong · 1d ago
University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Daily Nous · 1d ago
📰
How much will conceptual reasoning training transfer to ML research abilities?
LessWrong · 1d ago