Stuart_Armstrong comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 November 2009 08:35:38PM 2 points [-]

Yes, but it's very easy for the actual large scale consequences of a human morality to be very different. We all feel compasion for freinds and fear of strangers; but when we scale our morality to the size of humanity, the difference is huge depending whether the compassion or the fear dominates.

Hitler and Ghandi may not be that different, but the consequences of their actions were.