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averagejoel posted...

But theres no concrete metric for descriptors like clever, stupid, brave, admirable, valuable, annoying, embarrassing, etc.
while it's true that there's no concrete metric for those words, all of them except "stupid" are much more specific descriptors, and none of them invoke a moral judgement

I don't see how "admirable" is more specific than "good" or "evil" -- they seem like the same kind of thing. I also don't see how stupid is different than the others.

Just to take admirable as an example, that can be applied to any variety of things depending on the speaker and all that it conveys is that the speaker looks at the thing/action in a certain way. That is also what good or evil convey to me as descriptors.


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