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What types of philosophy are you interested in? Ontologies which list what categories of things exist and how they interact? Epistemologies which describe how we know things? Ethics philosophies which discover what’s right or wrong?
Definitely ethics.
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Primarily epistemics. It at least has contact with base reality, in the sense that a better system of epistemics should help you navigate the world better.
Given that I embrace both moral relativism and moral chauvinism, I don't particularly care what other people think are good or bad, except if they wish to impose it on me I guess. I see no reason to think there are "objective" answers to what's right or wrong, merely a lot of fervent wishing it were so.
At most, a moral claim can be highly compelling, to the extent it convinces me, or it can be nigh universal in humans (for evolutionary and game theoretic reasons, such as a distaste for theft or murder, such norms being found in any mammal with the brainpower to conceive it) but that hardly makes them objective.
Restricted to appraising moral valence as per my own idiosyncratic ethics, I struggle to see anyone more qualified to comment than I am, at least until we've got Superintelligent AGI running around that knows me better than I do.
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