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Nornagest comments on Thwarting a Catholic conversion? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Jay_Schweikert 18 June 2012 04:26PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 20 June 2012 01:57:04AM 1 point [-]

I think that'd be difficult, unless you manage to find a source that's already mined a lot of religious texts for ethical instruction and put them down in a common format; it's not like there are any obvious textual markers of ethics that you could plug into, say, a Gutenberg search.

I suppose you could grep for stuff along the lines of "good" or "moral" or "the superior man", but that'd miss a lot of stuff and include a lot of other stuff with obvious markers of religion in it.

Comment author: magfrump 20 June 2012 03:31:19AM 0 points [-]

I was just thinking you'd search random passages and remove ones with "god" or whatever in them.

I guess my conception of what goes on in holy texts is probably not quite on spot.