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35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 15 December 2012 01:41:46AM 0 points [-]

I think this is easier because disgust is relatively arbitrary to begin with, in that it seems to implement a function over the world-you relation (roughly, things that are bad for you to eat/be near). We wouldn't expect that relation to have much coherence to begin with, so there'd be not much loss of coherence from modifying it - though, arguably, the same thing could be said for most qualia - elegance is kind of the odd one out.