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35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 December 2012 08:47:56PM *  12 points [-]

Is permitting or perhaps even helping Haitians to emigrate to other countries anywhere in the moral calculus?

Comment author: AlanCrowe 13 December 2012 08:08:46PM 0 points [-]

I interpreted Eliever's questions as a response to the evocative phrase "my moral intuition is throwing error codes." What does it actually mean? Can it be grounded in an actual situation?

Grounding it in an actual situation introduces complications. Given a real life moral dilemma it is always a good idea to look for a third option. But exploring those additional options doesn't help us understand the computer programming metaphor of moral intuitions throwing error codes