randallsquared comments on Less Wrong Should Confront Wrongness Wherever it Appears - Less Wrong

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Comment author: randallsquared 23 September 2010 07:51:47PM 1 point [-]

Isn't it enough to show that there are at least some incompatible terminal values? If this is the case, then there can be no overall lasting agreement on politics without resorting to force (avoiding the naked use of which could be seen as the main point of politics in the first place).

Comment author: cousin_it 24 September 2010 01:00:20PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks for twisting my mind in the right direction. Phil Goetz described how values can be incompatible if they're positional. Robin Hanson gave real-world data about positionality of different goods. This doesn't seem to deal with terminality/instrumentality of values yet...