novalis comments on Looking for alteration suggestions for the official Sequences ebook - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 17 October 2012 01:00:49AM 2 points [-]

Fix this

Also, that whole article needs to make it clear that this structure is entirely a function of how humans categorize things, rather than of reality itself, and that comparisons between dimensions are impossible without reference to human values (there is no absolute way to compare one cm of height to three jnds of redness). The sequence does more-or-less get to that later, but the argument is not presented cleanly and clearly.