thelittledoctor comments on The ethics of breaking belief - Less Wrong

16 Post author: thelittledoctor 08 May 2012 08:34PM

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Comment author: thelittledoctor 09 May 2012 12:01:08AM 1 point [-]

Absolutely, contingent on being able to convince myself it's ethical to do so. Give me a moment to do some typing and I'll outline how I think one such conversation sequence would go.

Comment author: MinibearRex 09 May 2012 12:42:07AM 5 points [-]

I just caught myself rationalizing ways to prove that deconverting them would be the right thing, so that I could see the results of this experiment.

Comment author: thelittledoctor 09 May 2012 03:36:42AM 3 points [-]

I caught myself doing more or less the same thing (but for substantially eviller reasons), which is why I asked LW in the first place.