This link seems not to answer the comment ,:-. is this mistaken or did EY use that fallacy?
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Why is this useful to us? I am confused :( it seems that only following all the selection could make this useful?
in their full-fledged human form, our moral adaptations are the result of selection pressures over linguistic arguments about tribal politics.
Is that known to be true? It seems like a possible story, but other such ideas feel likely without working—game theory, group selection, kin selection, all these sound good but do not truly explain why we feel moral. I do not want to convince myself of such a mistake unless it works in math as well as convinces.
There’s not really any benefit from fixing that bias, though.
In most people Eugenics (even the good ones) is evil Nazi stuff and this can count even helpful GM as evil.
The best I can think of is it makes for an interesting sort of critical thinking or bias test: give someone a writeup of, say, Nazi animal welfare policies & reforms, and see how they react. Can they emit a thoughtful reply rather than canned outrage?
But we fail the test thus our sanity waterline could be raised :(
I’m thinking this evil halo effect regarding Nazis is the most common bias in our civilization, we all know about Godwin ;) but most people who come here probably have a bit of this stuff in their head. If we know this is true maybe it should be fought (or is the benefit from no Jew bashing allowed so huge its OK?)
‘a materialistic sophisticated Christian’
I liked the dialog you wrote but it seems strange that he still judges based on the soul when he’s sophisticated and materialist ,:-. though MS seems to have his own idea in mind that I didn’t think of at least. Also didn’t the sophisticated Christians in the Vatican say aliens could have souls so “human” as criteria seems more restrictive than them. Just my thoughts it’s your character just might be worth updating small details of your Christian model if I’m right :)
Why are you mean to candies :( now I feel sorry too for the poor candies. You anthropomorphism their pain and it leaks into us and that makes us sad for their felt pain through empathy. I think anyway, not like I’m strong evidence.
Not very rational to vote down a fact >:( it’s not even politics like that one just the things they believed. Is there any post on bias against the poor Nazis, it seems a bad plan if you want human rationality to tar facts about them with the same brush as their evil deeds.
a better example might be trying a hobby and finding you like it
But that sounds nice! Noone wants the wireheading to be nice! Its supposed to be scary but they want it anyway so its even scarier. People wanting fun stuff isn’t scary its just nice and its not interesting.
It happens after all. Some people think that copying art so that more people can experience it is awesome. Others think that it’s so non-awesome that preventing the first group from doing it is awesome. Yet another group is indifferent to copying, but thinks the prevention is so non-awesome that preventing that is awesome.
ಠ_ರೃ I disapprove of your example, sah!
ETA: Just joking with you I wanted to use that face.
The situation is pretty much the same (except you can’t really use force).
We can use PURE WILLPOWER.
If that’s actually correct, we should be able to just breed a superintelligence.
That’s not really a new idea :P all those sci fi worlds with brain bugs and future humans worshiping the morlock king knew that.
The above may make it sound as if rule utilitarianism is only appropriate for those whose goal is to prioritize morality above absolutely everything else, and therefore for scarcely anyone.
Isn’t that the awesomest goal? ,:-.
I don’t understand why this was downvoted :( I upvoted it because it’s a good point and true. Is it too understanding to Nazis?
Poor you. Those of us who use “awesome” in the same way as nyan_sandwich, however, have no such problem.
Actually, aren’t there existing connotations of “awesome”—exciting, dramatic and so on—for everyone?
Did you retract this because they said it was a Basilisk?
That is a well-chosen word.