Nick_Tarleton comments on Morality is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 11 January 2013 08:13:22PM *  3 points [-]

Upvoted; whatever its relationship to what the OP actually meant, this is good.

Saying that it's good because it's vague, because it's harder to screw up when you don't know what you're talking about, is contrary to the spirit of LessWrong.

Reminding yourself of your confusion, and avoiding privileging hypotheses, by using vague terms as long as you remember that they're vague doesn't seem so bad.