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Wei_Dai comments on Another Argument Against Eliezer's Meta-Ethics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 06 February 2011 02:07:54AM *  1 point [-]

"Properly constructed" is the key phrase here. The vicious circle shouldn't be there, and wouldn't be if "right" is defined correctly (for example perhaps as a logical construct which itself doesn't refer to "right"), but if by "right" IE means IE's output, then it is there.

Comment author: orthonormal 06 February 2011 05:13:05PM 0 points [-]

By "right", BE and IE both mean "the output of algorithm X". The fact that IE happens to be algorithm X doesn't cause a vicious circle.