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loqi comments on Thomas C. Schelling's "Strategy of Conflict" - Less Wrong
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I doubt RichardKennaway believes Wei_Dai is unfit for inclusion in the human race. What he was saying, and what he received upvotes for, is that anyone who's blandly willing to murder millions of non-combatants of a friendly power in peacetime because they do not accede to empire-building is unfit for inclusion in the human race - and he's right, that sort of person should not be fit for inclusion in the human race. A comment on LW is not the same as that bland willingness to slaughter, and you do yourself no favours by incorrectly paraphrasing it as such.
I was commenting on what he said, not guessing at his beliefs.
I don't think you've made a good case (any case) for your assertion concerning who is and is not to be included in our race. And it's not at all obvious to me that Wei Dai is wrong. I do hope that my lack of conviction on this point doesn't render me unfit for existence.
Anyone willing to deploy a nuclear weapon has a "bland willingness to slaughter". Anyone employing MAD has a "bland willingness to destroy the entire human race".
I suspect that you have no compelling proof that Wei Dai's hypothetical nuclear strategy is in fact wrong, let alone one compelling enough to justify the type of personal attack leveled by RichardKennaway. Would you also accuse Eliezer of displaying a "bland willingness to torture someone for 50 years" and sentence him to exclusion from humanity?
What I was saying was horrendous act is not the same as comment advising horrendous act in hypothetical situation. You conflated the two in paraphrasing RichardKennaway's comment as "comment advising horrendous act in hypothetical situation unfits you for inclusion in the human race" when what he was saying was "horrendous act unfits you for inclusion in the human race".