🧩 Philosophy Sep 6, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle

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Your Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle
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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

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