AndyWood comments on 2-Place and 1-Place Words - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 June 2008 07:39AM

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Comment author: AndyWood 27 June 2008 04:12:36PM 3 points [-]

Caledonian and Laura ABJ: Those are interesting points on their own, but rather far removed from the point of the post. This illustration is not meant to say "The comic book authors earnestly tried to represent an alien mind realistically, and here's how they failed." It's simply a picture that serves well as an illustration of subjective evaluation, especially where the subjects are very different. Also, the fact that humans happen to be similar to one other with regard to this specific type of evaluation is an interesting discussion, but besides the point of this one.