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entirelyuseless comments on An attempt in layman's language to explain the metaethics sequence in a single post. - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Bound_up 12 October 2016 01:57PM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 13 October 2016 02:15:44AM 0 points [-]

I think it is perfectly obvious that this usage of "should" and so on is wrong. A paperclipper believes that it should make paperclips, and it means exactly the same thing by "should" that I do when I say I should not murder.

And when I say it is obvious, I mean it is obvious in the same way that it is obvious that you are using the word "hat" wrong if you use it for a coat.