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-6 Post author: rhollerith_dot_com 19 February 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 20 February 2011 03:09:09AM 0 points [-]

I get the vague 'hidden argument' feeling that I get from seeing Dark Arts in action.

A paraphrase of a theme in my post is that people whose motives are unobjectionable and widely admired in our society have given the readers a gift motivated by X, and then to point out that many reader and posters are using that gift for motive Y, which, yeah, is a use of Dark Arts.

Is that part of your objection to my post?

Comment author: Dorikka 20 February 2011 04:21:35AM 0 points [-]

Yes. Operating off of a utility function which attaches values to different world-states and acting according to consequential ethics, it just doesn't seem to make any sense.