The word “probably” is key: this is a Bayesian inference based on the actual state of the world. There is enough disagreement about how bad blasphemy is that wanting to ban it is significant evidence of placing a low value on freedom.
Oh, obviously they place a low value on freedom. But if we elide between “cares a lot less about x than me” with “cares negatively about x,” I think we’ve missed Eliezer’s point here. The modal capitalist ideologue doesn’t hate equality or piety or whatever.
The word “probably” is key: this is a Bayesian inference based on the actual state of the world. There is enough disagreement about how bad blasphemy is that wanting to ban it is significant evidence of placing a low value on freedom.
Oh, obviously they place a low value on freedom. But if we elide between “cares a lot less about x than me” with “cares negatively about x,” I think we’ve missed Eliezer’s point here. The modal capitalist ideologue doesn’t hate equality or piety or whatever.