TimS comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 11 June 2012 11:18:52AM *  1 point [-]

There are people in the real world who think that having a good enough decision-making process for making moral decisions (like deciding the right result in litigation) ensures a morally upright decision.

Up to this point, decision-making procedures have always been implemented by humans, so the quality of the decision-making process is not enough to ensure that a morally upright decision will be made. The better guarantee of morally upright decision-making is morally upright decision-makers.