Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

39 Post author: taw 16 July 2009 03:41PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 July 2009 08:45:02PM 3 points [-]

Actually I think we're dealing in virtue ethics here.

Comment author: thomblake 17 July 2009 08:52:34PM 1 point [-]

That seems very unlikely on the face of it (I hadn't meant it in a specifically virtue ethics context, and Alicorn isn't necessarily a fan), though I'd also gotten that impression from some of the phrasings in Alicorn's recent comment. Surely though it's an empirical question whether thinking of people in a particular way predisposes one to behave differently about them.

But what did you mean by that?