saturn comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: saturn 24 December 2012 03:50:10AM 4 points [-]

In the alternative where it's a bad idea, talking about it has net negative expected utility.

What about the possibility that someone who thought it was a good idea would change their mind after talking about it?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 December 2012 04:07:06AM 3 points [-]

This seems an order-of-magnitude less likely than somebody wouldn't naturally think of the dumb idea, seeing the dumb idea.

Comment author: Decius 24 December 2012 05:00:22AM 6 points [-]

Therefore censor uncommon bad ideas generally?