buybuydandavis comments on [SEQ RERUN] Eutopia is Scary - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MinibearRex 31 January 2013 06:06AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 31 January 2013 07:44:48AM 2 points [-]

This is not because our world has gone wrong, but because it has gone right.

This is one of those cases where I think subscripting terms of value to indicate "by whose standard" is helpful.

This statement is likely not true
This is not because our world has gone wrong_pastperson, but because it has gone right_pastperson.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 01 February 2013 03:01:04AM 1 point [-]

Not only that, but you cannot specify that it has gone right along all dimensions. Parts of the world situation have gone right. Parts have also gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Calling it "going right" loses a LOT of information.