Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 June 2011 10:31:42PM 0 points [-]

But you're not talking about those types of cases, right?

Don't understand what you said. Probably not.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 June 2011 01:44:58AM 1 point [-]

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.