Stuart_Armstrong comments on Thou Art Godshatter - Less Wrong

68 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 November 2007 07:38PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 November 2007 11:11:51AM 4 points [-]

>The blind idiot god's single monomaniacal goal splintered into a thousand shards of desire.

This would explain why our formalised moral systems are either hideously complicated, or fail to capture important parts of our morality... We just have far more urges wants and needs than we realise.