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Plastic Cake Fallacy: Flawed reasoning about morality and existence critiqued

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The Plastic Cake Fallacy describes a flawed argument where the failure of one solution is used to support the existence or truth of another, unrelated solution. This logical error, exemplified by a dialogue about inedible plastic cake and bad cooking, confuses what one wishes were true with what is actually true. The post clarifies that this fallacy is a form of appeal to consequences and does not assert the non-existence of God or objective morality, but rather critiques a specific fallacious line of reasoning. AI

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Plastic Cake Fallacy: Flawed reasoning about morality and existence critiqued

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · nika koghuashvili ·

    Plastic Cake Fallacy

    <p><span>Alice and Bob are hanging out when the following happens:</span></p><p><span>Alice: I'm hungry, can you bring me the cake from the fridge?</span></p><p><span>Bob: Yeah one moment... Damn, I just checked and it looks like this cake is plastic. We can't eat this.</span></p…

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