Psychohistorian comments on Bioconservative and biomoderate singularitarian positions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 02 June 2009 06:08:21PM 0 points [-]

A correct moral position is e.g. one not leading to confusion about moral content, such as belief that eating babies is a human terminal value.

Confusion is a property of the mind. Something that is defined as correct by not causing confusion is thus necessarily subjective. If people (possibly only a person) were different, and it did cause confusion, it would no longer be correct.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 June 2009 06:24:51PM 0 points [-]

Correctness is a property of the mind as well. And it's not a definition, it's an attempt for disambiguation, with an example. How many disclaimers do I need?

Comment author: Annoyance 02 June 2009 06:29:24PM -1 points [-]

Correctness is not a property of minds. It's potentially a property of conclusions, although this cannot be generally known. It's only usefully a property of arguments considered as a whole.