army1987 comments on Terminal Bias - Less Wrong

18 [deleted] 30 January 2012 09:03PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 09:24:05PM 3 points [-]

That's what I thought, until I tried talking to people about how justice could be improved. Some people really do take punishment of criminals as terminal. There are some in this very thread.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 09:57:55PM -1 points [-]

(I wonder whether they wouldn't like a world without crime because that would mean there's no-one to punish.)

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 10:40:48PM 1 point [-]

It's not so much that U(punish criminals) is high it's that U(punish criminal | criminal) is high.