Ishaan comments on P/S/A - Sam Harris offering money for a little good philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 05 September 2013 11:10:56PM -1 points [-]

I don't think he would disagree if he read it, which is why I thought it was worth submitting. i'm not attempting to change his opinion so much as attempting to dissolve the debate which he is attempting to take sides on. Sam Harris's argument is right if we accept the premise that good=good(1), but wrong if we accept the premise that good=good(2).

My purpose is merely to point out that the choice of whether to use good(1) or good(2) is arbitrary. My aim is to make it explicit. The debate as framed by Sam Harris implicitly assigns good the value of good(1). You can't just do that implicitly when the crux of the debate is about the definition of good.