MugaSofer comments on Just One Sentence - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 January 2013 01:27AM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 05 January 2013 06:38:06PM *  0 points [-]

Political disputes are usually terminal value disputes

Hahaha no. Seriously, you want to try and defend that claim?

EDIT: Waitasecond. Did you mean disputes about what our terminal values are? Because if so, that doesn't seem to have come across very well.

Comment author: TimS 05 January 2013 06:58:13PM 0 points [-]

I meant that most political disputes are actually about moral disagreement.

So I can improve in the future, what did you think I meant?

Comment author: MugaSofer 05 January 2013 07:11:10PM 0 points [-]

Conflicting terminal values. Kinda embarrassed now; I must be more charitable in future.

Comment author: TimS 06 January 2013 12:42:01AM 0 points [-]

Don't get too stressed about it - I do believe in intractable value conflicts - that should naturally affect your interpretation of my statements. But nyan_sandwich correctly noted that this commitment of mine is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.

Comment author: MugaSofer 06 January 2013 04:36:16AM -2 points [-]

I'm afraid I was primed by a similar ... discussion ... I was having in meatspace :(