NihilCredo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 29 August 2010 12:17:51AM *  0 points [-]

Sorry, I should have used "non-artificial" or something else; I intended to also include the quoted case of house elves having been created ad hoc.

Comment author: Pavitra 29 August 2010 12:43:20AM 3 points [-]

I maintain that house-elves created from scratch are completely different from identical house-elves created by modifying free elves against their will. Lumping the two together will produce non-well-defined moral judgments.