“And it is triple ultra forbidden to respond with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses.”
I’m half-convinced that Eliezer put that one in just to see whether we’d spot him contradicting his own advice and pick up on it, so that he can catch us all out in the next post in this series. I think that
“no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses… Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.”
constitutes infinitely many burdensome details—one for each scenario that one can think of where violence purportedly is the correct response. I’d prefer to reserve the right to use violence against an argument which:
(a) would almost surely have extreme negative consequences if anyone else heard it
(b) no counterargument [or other strategy apart from violence] stood a reasonable chance of averting said negative consequences
“And it is triple ultra forbidden to respond with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses.”
I’m half-convinced that Eliezer put that one in just to see whether we’d spot him contradicting his own advice and pick up on it, so that he can catch us all out in the next post in this series. I think that
“no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses… Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.”
constitutes infinitely many burdensome details—one for each scenario that one can think of where violence purportedly is the correct response. I’d prefer to reserve the right to use violence against an argument which:
(a) would almost surely have extreme negative consequences if anyone else heard it
(b) no counterargument [or other strategy apart from violence] stood a reasonable chance of averting said negative consequences