Vaniver comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

88 Post author: lukeprog 28 March 2011 07:31PM

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Comment author: DSimon 29 November 2011 04:27:02AM 5 points [-]

I don't think the division is so sharp as all that. Rather, what Vanvier is getting at, I think, is that one is capable of correctly and usefully answering the question "What does 'Friendy' mean?" in proportion to one's ability to reason algorithmically about subproblems of Friendliness.

Comment author: Vaniver 29 November 2011 02:57:20PM 0 points [-]

Endorsed.