Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 February 2010 02:04:09PM *  2 points [-]

But that works the other way around too. Somewhere hidden in the brain of a a liberal western person is a murderer/terrorist/child abuser/fundamentalist if you just perform the right set of edits.

Again, not all beliefs are equal. You don't want to use the procedure that'll find a murderer in yourself, you want to use the procedure that'll find a nice fellow in a murderer. And given such a procedure, you won't need to exclude murderers from extrapolated volition.