wedrifid comments on Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Wei_Dai 30 January 2010 02:50AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 31 January 2010 03:49:10AM 2 points [-]

This is a theme that crops up fairly frequently as a matter of semantic confusion and is a confusion that is difficult to resolve trivially due to inferential differences to the actual abstract concepts. I haven't seen this position explained so coherently in one place before. Particularly the line:

I think it was a huge mistake to claim that it was the subject matter of morality in the first place, that we were talking about some mysterious ineffable confused stuff when we were asking what is right.

... and the necessary context. I would find it useful to have this as a top level post to link to. Even if, as you have just suggested to JamesAndrix, it is just a copy and paste job. It'll save searching through comments to find a permalink if nothing else.

Comment author: matt 01 February 2010 10:02:32PM *  1 point [-]

Copy it to the wiki yourself.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 February 2010 02:50:20AM 1 point [-]

What name?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 February 2010 06:21:50PM 0 points [-]

Such things should go through a top-level post first, original content doesn't work well for the wiki.