Furcas comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong

95 Post author: simplicio 21 March 2010 07:08AM

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Comment author: Furcas 23 March 2010 01:00:54AM *  1 point [-]

Without relaunching the whole discussion, there's one thing I'd like to know: Do you acknowledge that the concepts you're "giving up on" ('transcendental' freedom, value, and purpose, as you define them) are not merely things that don't exist, but things that can't exist, like square circles?

Comment author: byrnema 23 March 2010 01:25:14AM *  2 points [-]

I only know that I believe they should exist. I gave up on figuring out if they could exist. Specifically, what I've "given up on" is a reconciliation of epistemic and instrumental rationality in this matter.