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Ah, that makes perfect sense. I'll try to track down his post on meta-ethics, thanks.

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Hanson has no problem with "shopping" for legal systems. Nor does he believe in an "objective" value function, he stated before his position on metaethics is moral anti-realism (same as mine) though he tried to work out a way to say that the moral realist consensus of philosophers wasn't a disagreement. Michael Abramowitz made the same point as you about the possible errors behind defining GDP+ when arguing for Predictocracy (bet on laws we will retroactively approve of, which I think a bad idea since I don't approve of many old but popular laws!) against Futarchy. I think his reason for voting on values is that he wants to "make a deal" with people who currently favor democracy.

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