Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Trouble With "Good" - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Yvain 17 April 2009 02:07AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 November 2010 10:08:55PM 3 points [-]

I saw a presentation where someone took thousands of English words, placed them in a high-dimensional space based on, I think, what other words they co-occurred with, ran PCA on this space, and analyzed the top 4 resulting dimensions. The top dimension was "good/bad".

Comment author: jmmcd 09 November 2010 07:25:36AM 5 points [-]

You already said so in this very thread :)

Comment author: Unnamed 08 November 2010 10:31:49PM 1 point [-]

This sounds like semantic differential research. The standard finding is three dimensions: good-bad (evaluation), strong-weak (potency), and active-passive (activity).

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 08 November 2010 10:09:45PM 1 point [-]

Do you remember the other three?