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26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 June 2008 05:07AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 September 2013 09:12:23PM 0 points [-]

nothing is moral and nothing is right;

everything is permissible and nothing is forbidden.

While these are equivalent (a utility function that always evaluates to 0 is equivalent to one that always evaluates to 1, yada yada yada), they “feel” opposite to me: “nothing is moral and nothing is right” would have the connotations of “nothing is permissible and everything forbidden”, and “everything is permissible and nothing is forbidden” would have the connotations of “everything is moral and everything is right”, or “nothing is immoral and nothing is wrong”.