Alexandros comments on Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alexandros 08 August 2010 01:00:13PM 1 point [-]

By replacing 'has purpose X' with 'is suitable for X', a lot of Wright's points become meaningless.

That said, I am also unsure about Eliezer's argument for purposelessness from competing designs.