Nick_Tarleton comments on Open Thread, November 1 - 7, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 08 November 2013 05:04:24AM *  0 points [-]

I wonder if it would be fair to characterize the dispute summarized in/following from this comment on that post (and elsewhere) as over whether the resolutions to (wrong) questions about anticipation/anthropics/consciousness/etc. will have the character of science/meaningful non-moral philosophy (crisp, simple, derivable, reaching consensus across human reasoners to the extent that settled science does), or that of morality (comparatively fuzzy, necessarily complex, not always resolvable in principled ways, not obviously on track to reach consensus).