🚨 I’m pleased to announce: The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD) – a new and improved way to detect moral themes in text, for use in moral psychology + natural language processing (NLP) @MediaNeuro🧵.

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"Richard is 25 and a transhumanist. He lives in Middlesbrough" 😂

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NB some of these taboos could be violations of moral molecules (hence inappropriate to code by single moral element).

Not sure what this paper is arguing… the intuitive codings of ancient moral taboos by participants & AI are closer to the PI's intuitions that to MAC or MFT? You'd get the same for intuitive codings of matter (earth, wind water and fire) v chemistry🤷‍♂️

RT @rorysutherland: “Rope and knots are the building blocks of civilization. They pervade all aspects of our world.” .

Now that teens get their kicks on the dark web, won’t they be exposed to all kinds of additional horrors? Is the Online Safety Act like Prohibition?.

RT @danwilliamsphil: In a new essay I argue that the case against social media is weaker than many people think: (1/3) .

Scientism is better than anti-scientism.

"evolutionary naturalism can give us some guidance in thinking about what constitutes ethical valuation. If our ethical practices, moral sentiments & social psychology are adaptations to help us cooperate, then what is at issue is a particular type of mattering: social mattering"

"Whether something is good or bad is not just a matter of opinion – whether someone thinks it is good or bad. It is a factual and empirical matter, supported in the strongest possible manner by consequences for reproduction, life, and death." 👍

RT @robsica: 😸"It is entirely possible that when subjected to acute critical examination, the traditional dialectic between the moral reali….

Seems like every policy position – for or against – can plausibly be framed as causing 'real harm' or 'costing lives'.

RT @robsica: "beliefs in punitive, omniscient gods or forces cannot explain the initial emergence of social complexity in deep prehistory".

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