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daenerys comments on Communicating rationality to the public: Julia Galef's "The Straw Vulcan" - Less Wrong
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What does this mean?
a) Emotions are logically necessary for forming goals, rational beings are incapacitated without emotions.
b) Emotions are logically necessary for forming goals, rational beings are incapacitated without goals.
c) Emotions are logically necessary for forming goals, rationality has no normative value to a rational being without emotions.
d) Emotions are logically necessary for forming goals, rationality has no normative value to a rational being without goals.
e) Emotions are necessary for forming goals among humans, rational humans are incapacitated without emotions.
f) Emotions are necessary for forming goals among humans, rational humans are incapacitated without goals.
g) Emotions are necessary for forming goals among humans, rationality has no normative value to humans without emotions.
h) Emotions are necessary for forming goals among humans, rationality has no normative value to humans without goals.
i) (Other.)
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.