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orthonormal comments on Mapping Fun Theory onto the challenges of ethical foie gras - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: HonoreDB 07 December 2011 08:47PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 07 December 2011 11:37:56PM 5 points [-]

That's really interesting if true. Can you find where you read that?

Comment author: dlthomas 07 December 2011 11:42:02PM 12 points [-]

I cannot verify right now, but I believe it was in this TED talk.

Comment author: orthonormal 08 December 2011 12:28:19AM *  3 points [-]

Yes, he mentions it there, in passing.

Thanks!

Comment author: smk 09 December 2011 04:55:23PM 4 points [-]

"He doesn't look like a guy who's paying off French judges for his foie gras. So that died down, and very soon afterward, new controversy. He shouldn't win because it's not foie gras. It's not foie gras because it's not gavage. There's no force feeding. So by definition, he's lying and should be disqualified."

He doesn't actually say that Sousa was disqualified, but that some people thought he should be.