Vladimir_Nesov comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 January 2011 10:25:27PM *  1 point [-]

The standard debates ask wrong questions, there's little point answering them, you'd spend all the time explaining your preferred ways of disambiguating the hopelessly convoluted standard words. Unsurprisingly, Eliezer's metaethics doesn't actually solve all of decision theory, so it makes a lot of steps in the right direction, while still necessarily leaving you confused even if you understood every step. You'd need to ask more specific questions, clarification for specific claims. I agree that regurgitating a body of knowledge usually helps it compost, but a mere summary probably won't do the trick.