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hyporational comments on The Relation Projection Fallacy and the purpose of life - Less Wrong Discussion

67 Post author: Academian 28 December 2012 04:14AM

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Comment author: hyporational 30 December 2012 04:32:28AM *  1 point [-]

Sorry if I worded my question confusingly.

I think the op already addresses this and is not simply projecting minds. The important part is that an agent can be assumed and queried. I was hoping for an example where an agent cannot be assumed as in "the ultimate purpose".

Your example would make no sense at all if an agent could not be queried.

Comment author: bryjnar 30 December 2012 06:46:49AM 1 point [-]

Oh, I see. Sorry, I misinterpreted you as being sceptical about the normal usage of "purpose". And nope, I can't give a taboo'd account of it: indeed, I think it's quite right that it's a confused concept - it's just that it's a confused concept not a confused use of a normal concept.