Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 18 January 2013 07:34:10PM 1 point [-]

to prevent things like this from happening.

Smells like consequentialist reasoning. Look, if I had a better example I would give it, but I am genuinely not sure what deontologists think they're doing if they don't think they're just using heuristics that approximate consequentialist reasoning.