srn347 comments on Morality is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2013 05:42:56AM 22 points [-]

No.

If I taboo "awesome" directly, I'd miss something. (complexity of value)

The point of taboo is usually to remove a problematic concept that has too much attached confusion, or to look inside a black box.

The point of saying "Awesome" is actually the opposite: it was deliberately chosen for it's lack of meaning (points 1 and 4), and to wrap up everything we know about morality (that we go insane if we look at at the wrong angle) into a convenient black box that we don't look inside, but works anyway (point 2,3,5).

But again,

If we still insist on being confused, or if we're just curious, ... then we can see the metaethics sequence for the full argument, details, and finer points.

In other words "taboo awesome" is a redirect to the metaethics sequence.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2013 06:10:49AM 6 points [-]

Heh, good point(s) there. I never thought removing meaning would actually make an argument clearer, but somehow it did.