Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Wednesday depends on us. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2009 04:29:32AM 3 points [-]

1 and 2: Done.

3: My posts on this topic were a braindump, but a thorough one. With this done, the task of writing simplified explanations thereof ought to be performable by someone other than me; they don't have to invent the knowledge, only understand it thoroughly enough to explain it correctly.

Comment author: Z_M_Davis 29 April 2009 05:08:50AM 3 points [-]

[...] With this done, the task of writing simplified explanations thereof ought to be performable by someone other than me; they don't have to invent the knowledge, only understand it thoroughly enough to explain it correctly.

This phrasing makes it sound like you invented non-weepy materialism. Come on, this is standard stuff.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2009 06:23:43AM 3 points [-]

Carl may be slightly overstating the standardness of my metaethics (which if you consider it as a false appeal to authority, is also a flaw). I've yet to see anything that I recognize as being exactly like my own version, and "irrealism" is not how I would describe it. In particular, I think I rescue more moral appearances than other attempted reductions I've seen (like "murder is wrong regardless of what you think of it").