seer comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: seer 29 March 2015 06:18:53AM 9 points [-]

Well the fact that it appears to be impossible to get two LessWrongers to agree on whether a given moral theory is coherent and non-arbitrary is not encouraging in that regard.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 March 2015 10:29:26AM -1 points [-]

Because lesswrongians have philosophical superpowers, so if they can't do it, noone can?

But lesswrongian are rather lacking philosophical ordinarypowers, from where I'm standing.

Comment author: dxu 29 March 2015 10:58:47PM *  1 point [-]

<nitpick>As written, this implies that every LWer holds a different moral theory, which seems obviously false. A better phrasing might be, "There does not appear to be a majority position on morality on LW."</nitpick>

Also, talking about only LWers seems a bit narrow. I would have gone for "moral philosophers in general", actually.