It matters hugely that it's not deliberately unfair.
It matters a lot (to those who are vulnerable to the particular kind of irrational bitterness in question) that the universe is not deliberately unfair.
I took Eliezer's "it doesn't matter" to be the more specific claim "it does not matter to the question of whether the universe is unfair whether the unfairness present is deliberate or not-deliberate".
Err, the "question of whether the universe is unfair" sounds a lot to me like the "question of whether the tree makes a sound". What query are we trying to hug here? I think what I call "unfairness" - something due to some agent - is something we can at least sometimes usefully respond by being pissed off, because the agent doesn't want us to be pissed off. But the Universe absolutely cannot care whether we're pissed off, and so putting it under the same category as eg discrimination engenders the wrong response.
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