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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Integral vs differential ethics, continued - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 August 2015 09:06:03AM 0 points [-]

As banx said, take ordinal numbers (and remove ordinal addition). Classical ordinal numbers can be added, but they can't be scaled - you can't generally have x% of an ordinal number.