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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What do you think of "The Moral Landscape" by Sam Harris?

I have started reading this book by Sam Harris, and I wanted to know what you guys think of it.
gpt
Not good; it does not engage with any of the philosophical literature and developments in metaethics (Harris explicitly says he's not interested in engaging with any of it), yet makes very bold moral and metaethical claims.

In short, his view just assumes that human well-being (based in some experiential ground) is inherently valuable. From there, he's a consequentialist who thinks that human well-being ought to be promoted. Nothing new there. Never does he make an argument that science can *determine* the right moral values (as the title of the book suggests). It's very obvious that once you establish moral values, there are certain descriptive questions—which science can help answer—about how to best satisfy those values. But that's trivial and everyone knows that. 

The real question is how to determine the correct moral values in the first place. 

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That said, he's not a dumb person by any means. He's just not good at metaethics and should shut up about it. Stephen Hawking is obviously not dumb, but he should shutup about philosophy.