steven0461 comments on What's wrong with simplicity of value? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 29 July 2011 10:19:25PM 2 points [-]

people who already have a strong intuition that morality or their values should be simple

Such an intuition may not survive 1) a better intuitive understanding of how human psychology can make some things seem simple even when they are not, and 2) a better intuitive understanding of how all the usual arguments for Occam's razor apply to facts but not to values.