ciphergoth comments on The Trouble With "Good" - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Yvain 17 April 2009 02:07AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 18 April 2009 11:04:58AM 1 point [-]

unless the first incident makes it conditionally less likely that the second incident will occur unless Hitler is ungood.

That wasn't what I had in mind (and what I did have in mind is pretty straightforward to express and test mathematically, so I'll do that later today) but it's a possibility worth taking seriously: are you the sort of organisation that responds to reports of violence with a memo saying "don't go carving a backwards B on people"?