MugaSofer comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong
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I think that's a virtue ethics thing, which is why it breaks when you try to use it consequentially.
Alternatively, " it's OK to do something which has a consequence as long as I'm ignorant of that consequence", but it's Bad to deliberately create such a situation.