It dawns on me that there is a much more general tendency among most people to try to bail out of moral dilemmas or other hypotheticals.
I personal experience sometimes I wish it was socially accepted to shout “Stop making up alternate courses of action in my thought experiments!” but alas we all have to deal with the single inference step.
(Is there a generalization of that “take a third option” tendency on dilemmas and hypothetical situations?)
It dawns on me that there is a much more general tendency among most people to try to bail out of moral dilemmas or other hypotheticals.
And so they should. Moral dillemas are a social trap! If you must answer at all, never answer directly.
I just went in search of a comment thread in which myself and Eliezer both mentioned this issue. But it turns out that it was actually elsewhere in this thread
It dawns on me that there is a much more general tendency among most people to try to bail out of moral dilemmas or other hypotheticals. I personal experience sometimes I wish it was socially accepted to shout “Stop making up alternate courses of action in my thought experiments!” but alas we all have to deal with the single inference step.
(Is there a generalization of that “take a third option” tendency on dilemmas and hypothetical situations?)
And so they should. Moral dillemas are a social trap! If you must answer at all, never answer directly.
I just went in search of a comment thread in which myself and Eliezer both mentioned this issue. But it turns out that it was actually elsewhere in this thread