CytokineStorm comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CytokineStorm 08 March 2011 04:48:25PM *  10 points [-]

Ethics is ... the art of recommending to others the sacrifices for cooperation with oneself.

The great ethicists of history share essentially the same goal: get strangers to always pick D. ...

Comment author: wedrifid 10 March 2011 12:17:23AM *  6 points [-]

That would sound strange if I didn't remember the reference. Not 'D' for defect. 'D' for zero based alphabetized listing of boolean 11 where 1 is 'C'. :)

Comment author: endoself 13 March 2011 05:56:25AM 1 point [-]

I didn't like that comic because `D' can be achieved through a combination of egoism and UDT just as easily as through altruism. I assume that Weiner would not judge an egoist to be ethically perfect in the least convenient world, one where they were always forced to cooperate in prisoner's dilemma-type situations but could be entirely egoistic whenever they could get away with it, without even acausal consequences.