Sebastian_Hagen2 comments on Unnatural Categories - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen2 24 August 2008 11:35:28AM 0 points [-]

Nitpicking your poison category:

What is a poison? ... Carrots, water, and oxygen are "not poison". ... (... You're really asking about fatality from metabolic disruption, after administering doses small enough to avoid mechanical damage and blockage, at room temperature, at low velocity.)

If I understand that last definition correctly, it should classify water as a poison.