Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Single Point of Moral Failure - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Alexandros 06 April 2010 10:44PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 06 April 2010 11:43:40PM 6 points [-]

If we look at frequency of mass slaughter instead of absolute numbers (i.e., taking into account how recently the atheist countries were established), atheism does seem to come out worse than religion. This may be an instance of the valley of bad rationality.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2010 04:45:28PM 9 points [-]

Or mass killers are anti-Church for the same reason that they are, say, anti-labor-union: they permit no competing organized power structures.