orthonormal comments on Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: NancyLebovitz 09 August 2010 11:18PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 20 August 2010 01:16:45AM 2 points [-]

I know I've been mentioning Good and Real constantly since I read it, but this sounds a bit like the account of human decision theory (morality) in G&R...

Comment author: SilasBarta 20 August 2010 01:46:45AM 2 points [-]

I've made about six different 3-paragraph posts about G&R in the past three weeks, so I think you're safe ;-)

And yes, it does draw heavily on Drescher's account of the overlap between "morality" and "acting as if recognizing subjunctive acausal means-end links" (which I hope to abbreviate to SAMEL without provoking a riot).

Comment author: SilasBarta 20 August 2010 02:22:16AM 1 point [-]

Anyone know how to do linked footnotes? Where you have a link that jumps to the bottom and one at the bottom that jumps back to the point in the text? I suppose I could just do [1], [2], etc., but I figure that would annoy people.