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Moral Parliament For Moral Uncertainty

Faced with moral uncertainty (e.g., total-good views wanting a big world vs suffering-focused views wanting a small one vs integrity-focused views), Bostrom's moral parliament approach treats your competing moral views as multiple people living in your head who care about each other and negotiate a deal—so you favor actions that are really good according to one view and not too bad according to the rest, which moderates against extreme ends-justify-means behavior.

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Speaker

Holden Karnofsky

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I tend to want to do things that are really good according to one and not too bad according to the rest and try to have the kind of different parts of myself making deals with each other.

Source

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important centuryDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:22 AM

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