Are you sure the beliefs you’re using dark arts to promote are correct? If a belief you’re promoting turns out to be wrong, it’ll be nearly impossible to back paddle. Read this for a more detailed description.
If natural selection, which doesn’t care at all about the welfare of unrelated strangers, still manages to give you a sense of ethical unease on account of transgressive plans not always going as planned—then how much more reluctant should you be to rob banks for a good cause, if you aspire to actually help and protect others?
Full understanding (and frequent implementation of) of the concept of ethical inhibition does not lead me to accept naive signalling beliefs indiscriminately.
Are you sure the beliefs you’re using dark arts to promote are correct? If a belief you’re promoting turns out to be wrong, it’ll be nearly impossible to back paddle. Read this for a more detailed description.
That strikes me more as an excuse to say avoiding the dark arts is the desirable thing to do than an actual reason.
As Eliezer writes here
but seriously read the whole article.
Full understanding (and frequent implementation of) of the concept of ethical inhibition does not lead me to accept naive signalling beliefs indiscriminately.