Will_Newsome comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 September 2011 12:45:31AM *  1 point [-]

There is a wiser part of me that invariably agrees with that, it's just this stupid motivational coalition of mine that anti-anti-wants to warn others when they're absolutely certain of something they shouldn't be absolutely certain about where my warning them has some at least tiny chance of convincing them to be less complacent or notice confusion, so that I won't be blamed in retrospect for having not even tried to help them. And when the wiser part starts talking about semi-consequentialist reasons why I'm doing more harm than good the other coalition goes "Oh, you're telling me to shut up and be evil. Doesn't this sound familiar..."