Alicorn comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 03 January 2012 02:12:56AM 1 point [-]

Interesting. I don't read it as necessarily a judgment of value at all to be told that I should never have been born (things that should not have happened may accidentally have good consequences). Additionally, someone who doesn't think that I should have been born, but also doesn't think I should die, will not try to kill me, though they may push policies that will prevent future additions to my salient reference class; someone who thinks I should die could try to make that happen!

Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 January 2012 02:23:55AM 1 point [-]

Interesting.

For my part, I don't treat saying things like "I think you should be dead" as particularly predictive of actually trying to kill me. Perhaps I ought to, but I don't.