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NihilCredo comments on Sam Harris' surprisingly modest proposal - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NihilCredo 08 October 2010 01:01:35PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure we're even talking about related things anymore... your post (which uses quite a bit of Dark Arts, by the way) is all about instrumental signaling and how best to lead other people to act the way you'd prefer. I'm talking about Harris's claim to have outlined the process for an objective, universal study of morality. I am not really interested in whether his writings are or are not an efficient way to make others adopt his same morals; I am interested in the intellectual consistency of his positions, which I currently find rather lacking.