Decius comments on Logical Pinpointing - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2012 03:33PM

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Comment author: Decius 03 November 2012 12:36:46AM 1 point [-]

If you can't bang in nails with it, it isnt a hammer. What you can do with it isn't relevant.

By that, the absence of nails makes the weighted lever not a hammer. I think that hammerness is intrinsic and not based on the presence of nails; likewise morality can exist when there is only one active moral agent.