I think Eliezer specifically has in mind something like:
You’re more “Good” insofar as you terminally care about others’ welfare. (Where “maximum Good” means that you care about a stranger’s happiness just as much as you care about your own happiness.)
You’re more “Lawful” insofar as you have coherent preferences, employ valid reasoning patterns, and follow logical decision theory. (So, e.g., the ability to make binding precommitments—and to do the thing you wish you’d precommitted to, even if you didn’t actually precommit—is part of being “Lawful”. Which in turn means that being an honest, trustworthy trading partner is part of being “Lawful”, insofar as you live in a world where being a visibly honest-and-trustworthy trading partner is rewarded more than it’s punished.)
I may be getting the details wrong, but I gather it’s something like that. “Evil” means that you’re minimally Good; “Chaotic” means that you’re minimally Lawful; “Neutral” means that you’re somewhere in the middle, on one or both of those axes.
Lawful good/ neutral is part of a Dungeons and Dragons character’s ‘alignment’ chart. It’s a way people sometimes use to describe people’s morality and motivations in real life. https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-chart-that-explains-everyone-character-alignment/
I think Eliezer specifically has in mind something like:
You’re more “Good” insofar as you terminally care about others’ welfare. (Where “maximum Good” means that you care about a stranger’s happiness just as much as you care about your own happiness.)
You’re more “Lawful” insofar as you have coherent preferences, employ valid reasoning patterns, and follow logical decision theory. (So, e.g., the ability to make binding precommitments—and to do the thing you wish you’d precommitted to, even if you didn’t actually precommit—is part of being “Lawful”. Which in turn means that being an honest, trustworthy trading partner is part of being “Lawful”, insofar as you live in a world where being a visibly honest-and-trustworthy trading partner is rewarded more than it’s punished.)
I may be getting the details wrong, but I gather it’s something like that. “Evil” means that you’re minimally Good; “Chaotic” means that you’re minimally Lawful; “Neutral” means that you’re somewhere in the middle, on one or both of those axes.