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Will_Sawin comments on What does a calculator mean by "2"? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Wei_Dai 07 February 2011 02:49AM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 08:38:16PM 0 points [-]

If I am located at the center of a blurring, buzzing confusion, do statements like "I see a red circle" have no meaning?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 09 June 2011 08:49:16PM *  0 points [-]

If you're say that what you mean by "ought" is what the part of you that uses moral judgments means by "ought", then I don't understand why you choose to identify with that part of you and not with the part of you that produces moral judgements. EDIT: Doing so makes it easier to "solve the problem of meta-ethics" but you end up with a solution that doesn't seem particularly interesting or useful. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Continued here.