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TheOtherDave comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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It didn't seem directly relevant to TimS's comment.
That said, it would be a remarkable coincidence if a framework reliably motivated right action without corresponding to reality.
Depends, how are you judging which action is "right", do you have any way to judge independent of the framework?
A lot of religions motivate a lot of right actions. They motivate even more if you let a religion judge the rightness of the action it motivates.
Agreed that if the only metric for right action is whether the action is motivated by my framework, then it's not a coincidence at all that my framework motivates right action.
It's also true that if I know of no metric at all for right action, then I can't know whether a framework reliably motivates it.