PhilGoetz comments on Only humans can have human values - Less Wrong
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Not my downvote either, but I'm really shocked... it's simply not okay to quote fictional worlds as evidence. Sure there's lots of evidence that technology can help the environment, but fiction isn't it.
Not okay.
ETA: Whoah, okay, not only did I misunderstand what "this" referred to, but at least four other people instantly didn't:
Gladly, I was shocked only by own ignorance!
It's okay to quote them as evidence of what a group of people want or believe, if they're popular with that group. Green utopias should be correlated with the wishes of the Greens.