Nisan comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong
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I thought being persuaded of a metaethical theory entails that whenever the theory tells you you should do X, you would feel compelled to do X.
Only if motivational internalism is true. But motivational internalism is false.
What's that?
Here, let me Google that for you.
I could get into how much I hate this kind of rejoinder if you bait me some more. I wasn't asking you for the number of acres in a square mile. Let me just rephrase:
I hadn't heard of motivational internalism before, could you expand your comment?
This is a cool formulation. It's interesting that there are other things that can happen to you not similar to "being persuaded of a metaethical theory" that entail that whenever you are told to do X you're compelled to do X. (Voodoo or whatever.)