You mean this idea?

> A moral person is someone who cooperates with other moral people, and who refuses to cooperate with immoral people.

It's just so naive. A slightly cleaned up version of ordinary tribalism: "we are good and they are bad", with no further justification. Anybody can claim their own tribe is the moral one this way.

Oh, I certainly agree. But a naive algorithm can be used to predict the opinions of the naive.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you.

I was mostly reacting because I remember reading that blog post when it came out and thinking it was a neat idea, and now I'm recoiling in horror at how terrible it sounds.

The article actually discusses this very argument, though in a slightly tangential way.

I'm grimly curious as to whether or not you really think I'm going to read all that.

This is the perfect and always perfectly accurate response whenever someone links to the Rational-sphere. On the other hand, why use few words when you could use—Jesus Christ—6,663 words instead?