dlthomas comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 09 November 2011 12:36:31AM 0 points [-]

Only insofar as it discourages similar future behavior in the same person, I'd say.

I'm not sure that I agree. It may be necessary to punish more to keep a precommitment to punish credible. That precommitment may be preventing others from doing harm.

Comment author: Nornagest 09 November 2011 12:46:29AM *  1 point [-]

Fair enough. I'd lumped the effects of that sort of precommitment under "discouraging others from acting similarly", and accordingly discarded it.

Comment author: dlthomas 09 November 2011 01:07:24AM 0 points [-]

Ah, I read it as a contrast. My bad.