Oscar_Cunningham comments on No License To Be Human - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 21 September 2012 06:30:14PM 1 point [-]

Checking my understanding: The idea is that we can't disagree about "rightness" with pebblesorters, even if we both say "right", because the referant of the word is different, so we're not really talking about the same thing. Wheras with other humans the referant overlaps to a (large?) extent, so we can disagree about it to the extent that the referant overlaps.

Yep