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

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 01 February 2010 06:46:32AM 5 points [-]

I think that a very large fraction of the time, when a possibility appears to be coherent and well formed, it may turn out not to be upon more careful examination. I would see the subject matter of "fairies" as "that which causes us to talk about fairies", the subject matter of "dogs" as "that which causes us to talk about dogs", and the subject matter of "morality" as "that which causes us to talk about morality". All three are interesting.