Nornagest comments on Ben Goertzel on Charity - Less Wrong

1 Post author: XiXiDu 09 March 2011 04:37PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 10 March 2011 11:14:43PM *  1 point [-]

Fair enough. It ultimately comes down to whether or not tickling transhumanists' brains wins us more than we'd gain from appearing however more approachable to non-transhumanist rationalists, and there's enough unquantified values in that equation to leave room for disagreement. In a world where a magazine as poppy and mainstream as TIME likes to publish articles on the Singularity, I could easily be wrong.

I stand by my statements when it comes to SIAI-specific values, though.