CharlesR comments on Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics - Less Wrong

38 Post author: lukeprog 24 April 2011 12:42AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 24 April 2011 01:22:39AM 9 points [-]

Hmmmm. What do other people think of this idea?

I suspect one reason Eliezer did not do this is that when you make a long list of claims without any justification for them, it sounds silly and people don't pay attention to the rest of the sequence. But if you had first stepped them through the entire argument, they would have found no place at which they can really disagree. That's a concern, anyway.

Comment author: CharlesR 24 April 2011 04:11:06PM 0 points [-]

That's sort of like reading the end of a novel before you buy it. If you do include a summary, please announce what you're doing and make it something we can skip.

Comment author: TimFreeman 25 April 2011 01:07:04AM 5 points [-]

Novels are meant to be entertaining. Luke's metaethics post(s) would be meant to be useful, so the analogy isn't valid. Even so, novels frequently have a summary on the inside flap of the dust cover. I hope to see the summary.