Turgurth comments on Summary of "The Straw Vulcan" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Turgurth 18 July 2013 01:38:51AM *  3 points [-]

To add to Principle #5, in a conversational style: "if something exists, that something can be quantified. Beauty, love, and joy are concrete and measurable; you just fail at it. To be fair, you lack the scientific and technological means of doing so, but - failure is failure. You failing at quantification does not devalue something of value."