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casebash comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: casebash 30 March 2015 12:40:03PM 1 point [-]

"and not sincere attempts to make a philosophical point" - So, he's confused atheists and moral error theorists, but the point is rather valid philosophically. It is very easy to say that one doesn't believe in morality in the abstract, but much harder when confronted with a vivid, specific example.

Comment author: Jiro 30 March 2015 01:50:18PM 1 point [-]

"Sincere" and "valid" aren't the same thing.