Eliezer, did you mean something different by the “does not get bullet” line than I thought you did? I took it as meaning: “If your thinking leads you to the conclusion that the right response to criticism of your beliefs is to kill the critic, then it is much more likely that you are suffering from an affective death spiral about your beliefs, or some other error, than that you have reasoned to a correct conclusion. Remember this, it’s important.”
This seems to be a pretty straightforward generalization from the history of human discourse, if nothing else. Whether it fits someone’s definition of “moralizing” doesn’t seem to be a very interesting question.
Eliezer, did you mean something different by the “does not get bullet” line than I thought you did? I took it as meaning: “If your thinking leads you to the conclusion that the right response to criticism of your beliefs is to kill the critic, then it is much more likely that you are suffering from an affective death spiral about your beliefs, or some other error, than that you have reasoned to a correct conclusion. Remember this, it’s important.”
This seems to be a pretty straightforward generalization from the history of human discourse, if nothing else. Whether it fits someone’s definition of “moralizing” doesn’t seem to be a very interesting question.
Agreed.