Pavitra comments on In conclusion: in the land beyond money pumps lie extreme events - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 26 November 2009 01:07:31AM 1 point [-]

If I could do this reliably then I would not need to construct ethical injunctions to protect me from myself. I do not believe you are correctly applying the referenced concepts.

That's like saying "If I could build a house reliably then I would not need to protect myself from the weather." Reliably including the probability of error in your multiplication constitutes following ethical injunctions to protect you from yourself. Ethics does not stop being ethics just because you found out that it can be described mathematically.

Comment author: wedrifid 26 November 2009 02:45:36AM *  0 points [-]

Reliably including the probability of error in your multiplication constitutes following ethical injunctions to protect you from yourself.

I do not agree. We are using the phrase ethical injunction to describe a different concept.