ciphergoth comments on Whining-Based Communities - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2009 08:31PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 08 April 2009 08:04:45AM 2 points [-]

As materialists, we kind of have to believe that nothing is anyone's "fault" or "accomplishment". At least, not in the old-fashioned moralistic sense.

I find this one of the hardest and most enlightening disciplines of being a materialist. It certainly is the single thing that puts the most distance between me and most people in the way I think about the world.

I keep hoping to either write or read a top-level post about this.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2009 09:21:28AM 5 points [-]

Causality and Moral Responsibility

(It's being reduced to parts, not explained away.)