From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2006 - 16:22:55 MDT
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:05:48PM -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 06:51 AM 8/24/2006 -0400, Patrick Crenshaw wrote:
>
> >I don't know what exactly Eliezer's brand of objective morality
> >is,
>
> Was.
>
> >but I would certainly like to see something demonstrating that it
> >is the doctrine of morons. Care to send a link?
>
> >On 8/15/06, *Eliezer S. Yudkowsky* <sentience@pobox.com wrote:
> >Obviously morality would be measured in "morons".
>
> Is nobody paying attention?
I say, I say, I say it's a *joke*, son.
He even said so a few days later, when someone tried to put words in
his mouth about it.
If gravity is measured in gravitons, then morality must be measured
in morons... OK, it should be moralitons, but that's not *funny*,
see.
-Robin
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