Pablo_Stafforini comments on Newtonmas Meetup, 12/25/2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 25 December 2010 08:09:42PM *  1 point [-]

For the record, here's what I originally commented on David's wall. My comment here on LW was an excerpt from that comment:

Remember when Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed on that website [LW] that frogs are not subjects of moral concern? What ought one to think of a community that intends to be "less wrong" and yet succumbs to such obvious forms of anthropocentric bias?

(I ask this as a big fan of LW, and as someone puzzled by the fact that this community is composed of individuals who are abnormally intelligent and truth-oriented.)

Comment author: orthonormal 26 December 2010 06:43:25PM 0 points [-]

Again, we should find somewhere else to discuss this- but (if that's indeed Eliezer's quote) it couldn't be unthinking bias; the idea of moral concern universalized to all sentients was a big theme with Young Eliezer, if I recall correctly. Some further argument changed his mind, at least in the context of some pertinent query.

And I'm not among them, but there are a fair number of Less Wrongers who are vegetarians for ethical reasons.

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