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Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 20 March 2011 09:20:51AM *  11 points [-]

Reading this post and comments was almost physically painful to me. Offense is a solved problem. Why are we still discussing it? Are we going to have a free will debate next week? Though I understand that people may get offended at the thought that their feelings of offense are how a status-seeking algorithm feels from inside, and all the "deeper" reasons coming to mind are just post hoc rationalizations. It must feel like trivializing the rainbow...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 March 2011 01:34:55PM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't say "solved problem" for something so convoluted, and it's worth discussing roughly-understood things to refine the understanding, but I agree that that particular way of parsing the issue has lots of explanatory power.

Comment author: jsalvatier 20 March 2011 05:10:43PM 6 points [-]

Yes, but future discussions should at least reference past discussions if they were considered fruitful.