The article is trying hard to sound clever but comes across as pseudo-science techobabble. Another poster called it "AI moralityaslop" and that resonates.

The article pulls a (not very good) slight of hand where it switches between the interpretation of mechanics for physical phenomena such as gravity, to the interpretation of "feels".

Scaffolding requires a firm foundation to rest on. Physical reality may be a form foundation but opinions about morality are not firm.

This is "Moralityaslop" indeed.