Kevin_Reid comments on Epilogue: Atonement (8/8) - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 February 2009 11:52AM

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Comment author: Kevin_Reid 06 February 2009 03:33:44PM 2 points [-]

What concept in the Babyeaters' language is the humans' "good" translated to? We have been given a concrete concept for their terminal value, but what is theirs for ours, if any?

Comment author: rkyeun 27 August 2012 09:01:19PM *  0 points [-]

Betrayal. Perjury. Theft. Cancer.

Comment author: AndHisHorse 16 December 2013 09:33:51AM 0 points [-]

Probably something ambivalent to them, such as "honor-but-with-possible-mercy", or "science-and-peace-but-with-excessive-compassion".