Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong
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Don't understand what you said. Probably not.
Well, suppose that sometimes, depending on context cues, I use "ought" to mean "paperclip-maximizing", "prime-pile-maximizing", and "actually-ought".
There's nothing wrong about the first two definitions, they're totally reasonable definitions a word might have, they just shouldn't be confused with the third definition, which specifies correct actions.