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Vaniver comments on Why didn't people (apparently?) understand the metaethics sequence? - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: ChrisHallquist 29 October 2013 11:04PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 30 October 2013 01:14:32AM 2 points [-]

No, there's not, which is rather the point. It's like asking "what would it be like to move faster than the speed of light?" The very question is silly, and the results of taking it seriously aren't going to be any less silly.

I still don't think I'm understanding you. I can imagine a wide variety of ways in which it could be possible to move more quickly than c, and a number of empirical results of the universe being those ways, and tests have shown that this universe does not behave in any of those ways.

(If you're trying to demonstrate a principle by example, I would prefer you discuss the principle explicitly.)