Caledonian2 comments on Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 10 August 2008 02:56:55PM 0 points [-]

This story doesn't do a lot for the idea that people who pursue subjective moralities are worthy and intelligent, either.

Presumably everyone (or the vast majority) reading the story perceives the pebble-heaping conventions as subjective and arbitrary. Is that correct? Can we agree on that? If that's the case, then why isn't the moral of this fable that pursuing subjective intuitions about correctness a wild goose chase?