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Qiaochu_Yuan 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: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 January 2013 11:42:55PM *  0 points [-]

I think using the word "purpose" to describe optimizations by non-human agents makes it too easy to anthropomorphize the relevant agents and should be avoided. I am not sure what a good non-technical substitute word might be. Maybe "point"?