= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
pwno comments on Unspeakable Morality - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (116)
Ah. Actually, I think a reason I didn't get this was that when I hear "X is bad" I tend to look to its consequences before looking to its antecedents. For example, if you said "soap is bad", I would first think "being clean is bad?" before "maybe there's something wrong with the process that manufactured the soap". Utilities flow backward in time, not forward. Unless all this is just a post-facto rationalization, rather than my actually being unusually good at verbalizing the cognitive algorithms behind a thought...
If you heard "sweatshops are bad" or "styrophone cups are bad" you would first look for its antecedents. So maybe the cognitive algorithm goes something like this: If X in "X is bad" is not associated with unfavorable antecedents, then examin X's consquences by default.