orthonormal comments on The Most Important Thing You Learned - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 23 March 2009 10:23:23PM *  5 points [-]

The most important thing for me, basically, was the morality sequence and in particular The Moral Void. I was worrying heavily about whether any of the morals I valued were justified in a universe that lacked Intrinsic Meaning. The Morality sequence (and Nietzsche, incidentally) helped me internalize that it's OK after all to value certain things— that it's not irrational to have a morality— that there's no Universal Judge condemning me for the crime of parochialism if I value myself, my friends, humanity, beauty, knowledge, etc— and that even my flight from value judgments was the result of a slightly more meta value judgment.

Seems probable to me that many potential readers aren't currently too worried about the Moral Void, but those who are need a pretty substantial push in this direction.