CharlesR comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: CharlesR 03 November 2011 03:27:33PM *  4 points [-]

I reread the question. It wasn't asking what I thought it was.

Here is what I thought it said: Which of these do you think is true? What it really said was: Which of these do you identify with? (I must have pattern matched on the question when I saw the form of the answers.)

So your reply makes sense. Still, I would rather the question had been worded differently. Which of these do you use in practice when making moral choices? Which of these do you think best explains morality?

To me, "identify" is an evil word. Because you could let something into your identity you didn't want.