I agree that suffering is bad in all universes, for the reasons described in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zqwWicCLNBSA5Ssmn/by-which-it-may-be-judged. I’d say that “ethics… is not constituted by any feature of the universe” in the sense you note, but I’d point to our human brains if we were asking any question like:
What explains why “suffering is bad” is true in all universes? How could an agent realistically discover this truth—how do we filter out the false moral claims and zero in on the true ones, and how could an alien do the same?
I agree that suffering is bad in all universes, for the reasons described in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zqwWicCLNBSA5Ssmn/by-which-it-may-be-judged. I’d say that “ethics… is not constituted by any feature of the universe” in the sense you note, but I’d point to our human brains if we were asking any question like:
What explains why “suffering is bad” is true in all universes? How could an agent realistically discover this truth—how do we filter out the false moral claims and zero in on the true ones, and how could an alien do the same?