morality.txt

In regards to our evaluating ourselves based on what we'd do after a long
period of reflection with our 1000 IQ and so on. You said something like "I'm
not sure that person would meaningfully be me anymore." Quite so.

And whatever conditions we decide upon for characterizing this "moral genius"
to whom we defer, we can only do it with our current minds. If part of
developing moral genius is a more sophisticated characterization of what moral
genius IS, then surely that too must evolve.

And now we enter into infinite regress: the answer changes the question, the
question changes the answer, ad infinitum. This is "ill- founded logic"
because if you try to work backward from a conclusion, it never ends: it
becomes its own foundation. It's one of the problems with non-mathematical
arguments: it's relatively easy to hide a non- terminating statement in
natural language.