Eugine_Nier comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 January 2013 04:36:13AM 1 point [-]

Depends, how are you judging which action is "right", do you have any way to judge independent of the framework?

A lot of religions motivate a lot of right actions. They motivate even more if you let a religion judge the rightness of the action it motivates.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 January 2013 04:42:21AM 0 points [-]

Agreed that if the only metric for right action is whether the action is motivated by my framework, then it's not a coincidence at all that my framework motivates right action.
It's also true that if I know of no metric at all for right action, then I can't know whether a framework reliably motivates it.