randallsquared comments on The True Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: randallsquared 19 April 2009 10:23:19PM 0 points [-]

Anything that has the ability to save untold billions and will only do so if two particular individuals figure out how old the earth is evil. Or, at the very least, does not have the best interests of humanity in mind.

Since I'd say that evil is just having goals which are fundamentally incompatible with mine (or whoever is considering this), I don't think there's necessarily a difference between those two statements.