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buybuydandavis comments on Are consequentialism and deontology not even wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 June 2015 01:37:06AM 4 points [-]

""Yummy", once you break it down into specific preferences over flavors, corresponds very, very well to food chemistry."

I have a genetic variant where when I was young I was more sensitive to bitter tastes than others, but getting older I'm supposed to get less and less sensitive, until I'm less sensitive to bitter tastes than most people.

Yummy isn't even consistent just for me over time.

"Ooooh, I sense a Marxist talk coming on? Go on, go on!"

More Stirner than Marx. Nouveaux Marxists may have gotten on board with Stirner, but Marx spent 500 pages In the German Ideology mocking the idea that ideas matter. The world runs on historical materialism, dontcha know?

Comment author: [deleted] 06 June 2015 10:33:13PM 0 points [-]

I have a genetic variant where when I was young I was more sensitive to bitter tastes than others, but getting older I'm supposed to get less and less sensitive, until I'm less sensitive to bitter tastes than most people.

Yummy isn't even consistent just for me over time.

Uhhh... so what? It's a very real relational property.