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OrphanWilde comments on Desires You're Not Thinking About at the Moment - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Ghatanathoah 20 February 2013 09:41AM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 20 February 2013 09:05:08PM *  0 points [-]

Most of the time. Unfortunately a definition that works "most of the time" is wholly unworkable. Note that the "desire" definition arose out of the abortion debate.

Do not consider this an insistence that you provide a viable alternate, rather, an insistence that you provide one only if you find it to be a viable alternative.

Comment author: Elithrion 21 February 2013 12:41:55AM 0 points [-]

Most of the time. Unfortunately a definition that works "most of the time" is wholly unworkable.

I think general relativity is pretty workable despite working "most of the time".