PhilGoetz comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 01:19:06PM 3 points [-]

This should, perhaps, have been its own post, because I see no relation whatsoever to the original post.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 April 2009 03:36:27PM * 3 points [-]

The initial point of contact is when you said

If you don't prefer truth to happiness with false beliefs...

followed by a number of people in the comments disagreeing with me when I said this didn't make sense to me.

That, as well a lot of things said on LW by various people including you, sounds to me like elevating truth above values.

But I'll delete it and make it its own post if you like. I also thought that maybe I should've made it a separate post. It is a side issue.

Comment author: HughRistik 05 April 2009 07:13:17PM 3 points [-]

I'd like to see it as its own post, illustrated with quotes from Nietzsche or quotes from those interpreting Nietzsche.