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CronoDAS comments on Ontological Crisis in Humans - Less Wrong Discussion

41 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 December 2012 05:32PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 19 December 2012 01:49:38AM 5 points [-]

There is a somewhat trivial way out of this particular mess: replace "We ought to do what God wants" with "We ought to do what God would want, if God existed". (It's not any more incoherent than using any other fictional character as a role model.)