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RomeoStevens comments on Hedonic vs Preference Utilitarianism in the Context of Wireheading - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: jkaufman 29 June 2012 01:50PM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 30 June 2012 12:40:18AM *  -1 points [-]

the luddites whom would take my wire away should be put in holodecks while alseep where they can live out their sadistic fantasies of denial of pleasure without affecting me.

Comment author: jkaufman 30 June 2012 08:28:12PM 1 point [-]

nit: use archaic case forms correctly or not at all. There you should have 'who'.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 June 2012 08:47:45PM 0 points [-]

That and a T.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 30 June 2012 10:09:31PM 0 points [-]

I'm a narcissist, so I'm actually the subject of the above sentence :p

Comment author: arundelo 01 July 2012 06:17:57AM *  2 points [-]

Maybe there's a joke I'm not getting here, but it should be "who", not "whom", because it's the grammatical subject of "would take".

Edit: Bonus fun link -- "whom" used as a subject on a protest sign.