shminux comments on A brief history of ethically concerned scientists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 10 February 2013 12:41:11AM 3 points [-]

Sharing such information is democratic; keeping such information secret is authoritarian. I propose that keeping scientific information secret has all the same ethical and practical problems as authoritarian/autocratic political regimes.

Why so deontological all of a sudden?

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