Annoyance comments on Intelligence enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

17 [deleted] 15 June 2009 07:35PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (198)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Annoyance 18 June 2009 02:05:57PM -1 points [-]

This criticism is valid if we think that the trait we vary is irrelevant to the effect we are considering.

No, the criticism is valid if we have no reason to think that the traits will be causally linked. You're making another logical fallacy - confusing two statements whose logical structure renders them non-equivalent.

(thinking trait is ~relevant) != ~(thinking trait is relevant)