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TheOtherDave comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2011 07:58PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 July 2011 07:21:39PM 0 points [-]

And yet, a lot of our culture presumes that there are important differences between the two.

E.g., culturally we think it's reasonable for someone at 20 to make commitments that are binding on that person at 40, whereas we think it's really strange for someone at 20 or 40 to make commitments that are binding on some random other contemporary person.