Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2011 08:23:19PM 13 points [-]

You don't have to be a genius to be evil

Right, I'm just saying, that's how I know it's not the real Voldemort posting.

in my experience those few people who are both geniuses and evil, usually tell you exactly what they are about. They may not say, "I intend to torture and kill you," but they very often will tell you with relish how they've tortured others,

We may have different standards for "genius"; I don't think I've ever heard of someone who I would classify as both malicious (negated utility function, actually wants to hurt people rather than just being selfish) and brilliant. I also doubt that any such person exists nowadays, because, you see, we're not all dead.

Comment author: lessdazed 03 August 2011 07:45:41AM 15 points [-]

that's how I know it's not the real Voldemort posting.

That's how you know it's not Voldemort posting?

Comment author: MixedNuts 03 August 2011 06:53:36AM 10 points [-]

A person who greatly enjoys abducting, torturing, and killing a few people every couple months is plausible, whereas a person who wants to maximize death and pain is much less so. A genius of the former kind does not kill us all.