Vladimir_Nesov comments on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 May 2010 09:43:07PM 4 points [-]

"Should" refers to moral value of the outcome, and if someone is holding a gun to a puppy's head and says "if you say that 2+2=4, the puppy will die!", you shouldn't answer "4" to the question, even though it's correct that the answer is 4. Correctness is a concept separate from shouldness.