Incorrect comments on HP:MOR and the Radio Fallacy - Less Wrong

22 Post author: RichardChappell 21 July 2012 07:55PM

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Comment author: Incorrect 25 July 2012 01:45:44AM -1 points [-]

Taboo death

Comment author: wedrifid 25 July 2012 01:51:03AM 0 points [-]

Taboo death

A perfect taboo. In the literal non lesswrong sense.

Comment author: shminux 25 July 2012 03:01:31AM -1 points [-]

Sure. "Last breath".

Comment author: Incorrect 25 July 2012 03:33:51AM *  -1 points [-]

Are you supposing that oxygenating a human's blood without the use of lungs would result in the loss of their soul?

I think you will find that the only way to exclude such hypothetical possibilities is to define death as sufficient brain damage (although I suppose you could define it as cessation of neural activity if you don't mind the possibility of dead people coming back to life; that would still result in a very large proportion of souls being damaged)

Comment author: wedrifid 25 July 2012 03:39:40AM 2 points [-]

Are you supposing that oxygenating a human's blood without the use of lungs would result in the loss of their soul?

Sure, but they'll get it back (and lose 30 IQ points and a whole bunch of cool) if cursed by gypsies.

Comment author: shminux 25 July 2012 05:05:07AM -1 points [-]

We are not talking about anything real-world, remember. The original setting:

a remotely reasonable hypothesis, even in the Methodsverse where magic abounds

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