daenerys comments on Communicating rationality to the public: Julia Galef's "The Straw Vulcan" - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 25 November 2011 10:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 November 2011 08:59:36PM *  0 points [-]

From the context of her talk I have a high confidence that the "them" at the end of her sentence refers to emotions, not goals. Therefore I would reject translations b, d, f, and h.

I would also reject a as being far too reaching for the level of her talk.

Also from the context of her talk I would say that the "normative value" translations are much more likely than the "incapacitated" translations. My confidence in this is much lower than my confidence in my first assertion though.

That leaves us with c, g, and other. I've already argued that I think her talk was implied to be about human rationality, leaving us with g, or other.

Can't think of a better option, so my personal opinion is g.