cousin_it comments on An argument against indirect normativity - Less Wrong

1 Post author: cousin_it 24 July 2013 06:35PM

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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 24 July 2013 08:47:00PM *  1 point [-]

I think I understand X, and it seems like a legitimate problem, but the comment I think you're referring to here seems to contain (nearly) all of X and not just half of it. So I'm confused and think I don't completely understand X.

Edit: I think I found the missing part of X. Ouch.

Comment author: cousin_it 24 July 2013 09:18:45PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. The idea came when I was lying in a hammock half asleep after dinner, it really woke me up :-) Now I wonder what approach could overcome such problems, even in principle.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 24 July 2013 10:41:51PM 0 points [-]

If the basilisk is correct* it seems any indirect approach is doomed, but I don't see how it prevents a direct approach. But that has it's own set of probably-insurmountable problems, I'd wager.

* I remain highly uncertain about that, but it's not something I can claim to have a good grasp on or to have thought a lot about.