APMason comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2012 12:30:45PM 0 points [-]

In equal numbers? At sea? Are the ninjas manning a ninja-vessel?

Why would the ninjas try to fight pirates at sea? Are they intellectually disabled ninjas? Clearly they would wait until the pirates land, get ridiculously drunk and start carousing (and raping and pillaging if they are into that sort of thing). Then poison them or stab them in the back.

Comment author: APMason 29 March 2012 03:11:33PM 5 points [-]

Well, you see what you've done here is you've put me in a situation where I'm in an argument I don't care about, I agree with you, and yet some part of my brain is still playing Pirate's Advocate. Thanks very much.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2012 03:15:00PM *  -1 points [-]

an argument I don't care about

Sacrilege! Next you will be telling me you don't care about astronauts vs cavemen either! (If they are fighting in space the cavemen lose. Just sayin'.)