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Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 10:57:48AM *  1 point [-]

For every example you list (polyamory, etc)

I think you mean "for every example you are likley to list", I didn't list any.

I bet I can find you a counterexample of equivalent strength.

What exactly would that accomplish? I said more similar in some respects, didn't I? I didn't say on net or overall.

Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 11:02:51AM 0 points [-]

I think you mean "for every example you are likley to list", I didn't list any.

Yup.

I didn't say on net or overall.

That's the rub. I repeat my claim: the culture you want is, on net or overall, closer to our society than to societies that are OK with infanticide. It's evidence against your extrapolated-volition utopia being OK with infanticide. (unless I have absolutely zero understanding of Bayes)

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 11:05:30AM *  0 points [-]

sigh

That's the rub. I repeat my claim: the culture you want is, on net or overall, closer to our society than to societies that are OK with infanticide. It's evidence against your extrapolated-volition utopia being OK with infanticide. (unless I have absolutely zero understanding of Bayes)

Look two comments up.

It is certainly weak evidence in favour of a practice being nasty that societies which practice it are generally nasty in other ways. But it is just that, weak evidence.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 02 January 2012 11:12:58AM 0 points [-]

That's the rub. I repeat my claim: the culture you want is, on net or overall, closer to our society than to societies that are OK with infanticide. It's evidence against your extrapolated-volition utopia being OK with infanticide. (unless I have absolutely zero understanding of Bayes)

Tsk tsk tsk, not very multicultural of you.

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