MixedNuts comments on Morality is Awesome - Less Wrong
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This is interesting. Can we come up with a punchy name for good uses of "reverse tabooing"?
One reason I particularly like the choice of the word "awesome," which is closely related to and maybe just a rephrasing of your first point, is that it is much less likely to trigger redirects to cached thoughts that sound deep. Moreover, since "awesome" is not itself a word that sounds deep, talking about morality using the language of awesomeness inoculates against the trying-to-sound-deep failure mode.
Isn't what "naming" means in the first place?