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> I tried to read several sections of this garbage post (it goes wrong right from the get-go. There are no "virtue points". There is human decency).

He is talking about utils and virtue points as philosophical constructs.

This entire essay went over your head.



Never in the history of the universe has something written by Scott Alexander gone over someone's head. Maybe that means he writes clearly, or maybe it means he pontificates at great length about things everyone else has considered obvious since childhood. You be the judge.


The LSD essay went way, way over the heads of half of his comment section.


I get that you hate the guy, but c'mon.




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