TobyBartels comments on Stanislav Petrov Day - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 29 September 2011 08:20:14AM 4 points [-]

H'm, now it sounds like by "good for the environment" you didn't necessarily mean anything that you would consider good for anything at all, but just what a fairly unreflective person off of the street would mean by "good for the environment" in that context. In that case, I agree that the absence of humanity would be "good for the environment", although I don't particularly care what's "good for the environment", which is merely an instrumental value that would largely no longer apply. (That's just me, however.)

So thanks for explaining!

Comment author: wedrifid 29 September 2011 05:28:32PM 0 points [-]

H'm, now it sounds like by "good for the environment" you didn't necessarily mean anything that you would consider good for anything at all, but just what a fairly unreflective person off of the street would mean by "good for the environment"

I cannot accept that as representative of my position.

Comment author: TobyBartels 03 October 2011 03:24:44AM 1 point [-]

You don't seem to be very interested in explaining your position, so I'll just drop it now.