Vladimir_Nesov comments on Evaluating Multiple Metrics (where not all are required) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 February 2012 09:13:53PM *  6 points [-]

"How good a movie is" is not a question for which there is a fact of the matter, because expanding out the definition of the word "good" brings in all the complexity of human preference.

Being ambiguous or involving very complicated considerations doesn't make a question meaningless. There is still fact of the matter, even if it's not easy to find and there are multiple reasonable disambiguations that motivate focusing on multiple particular facts.