I think “moral anti-realist” is better, but not by much.
Specifically, they seem to be talking about something similar to Error Theory.
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It’s not a variant of Pascal’s Mugging, because the chances aren’t vanishingly small and the payoff isn’t nearly infinite.
Yes, the original distinction was between “Sibolet” and “Shibolet”. “Th” isn’t even a sound that exists in Hebrew.
וְהָיָה כִּי יֹאמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם, אֶעֱבֹרָה, וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ אַנְשֵׁי-גִלְעָד הַאֶפְרָתִי אַתָּה, וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא. ו וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ אֱמָר-נָא שִׁבֹּלֶת וַיֹּאמֶר סִבֹּלֶת, וְלֹא יָכִין לְדַבֵּר כֵּן, וַיֹּאחֲזוּ אוֹתוֹ, וַיִּשְׁחָטוּהוּ אֶל-מַעְבְּרוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן; וַיִּפֹּל בָּעֵת הַהִיא, מֵאֶפְרַיִם, אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁנַיִם, אָלֶף.
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I only really think using voices. Whenever I read, if I’m not ‘hearing’ the words in my head, nothing stays in.
Related: We wrestle not with flesh and blood
Because it’s one of the parameters of the thought experiment that a dust speck causes a miniscule amount of disutility.
That’d be Fighting the Hypothetical.
I think yes. Are the chances of this happening >20%?
Seconding the Rippetoe program recommendation, it worked well for me.
This is an excellent post.
Here is one hand...
Meh. Found that I was doing most of these things without even noticing it consciously anyway.
Liebniz didn’t like that.
That’s been posted at least twice before that I can remember.
I had the exact same reaction, except the other way ’round. :D
(Also, the street i apparently written “Mazeh”, despite being an acronym.)
Just sent you a Private Message. :)
Okay, I can make it.
I don’t know what you mean by that, but I resolved my weird ethical quasi-nihilism through a combination of studying Metaethics and reading Luke’s metaethical sequence, so you might want to do that as well, if only for the terminology.