xamdam comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xamdam 08 October 2010 01:32:02AM 0 points [-]

It is a little counterintuitive but even though values are entirely subjective people are actually not the absolute authority on what their subjective preferences are.

Absolutely. In a way we owe this understanding to Freud, he popularized the notion that people do not know what they are really pursuing. Of course he thought they were pursuing sex with their mother...

Comment author: wedrifid 08 October 2010 02:06:37AM 1 point [-]

Absolutely. In a way we owe this understanding to Freud

Could we instead say "this understanding is predated by Freud's popularized notion..."? There is no debt if the concept is arrived at independently and this is a general philosophical point that is not limited to humans specifically while Freud's is proto-psychology.