whowhowho comments on Philosophical Landmines - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BillyOblivion 02 March 2013 04:25:19AM 0 points [-]

No.

It's an honest assessment of the state of the world.

I'm not agreeing with that position, I'm just saying that there are folks who would prefer an efficient program that yielded the wrong results if it benefited them, and would engage in all manner of philosophicalish circumlocutions to justify it to themselves.

Comment author: whowhowho 04 March 2013 07:30:07PM 0 points [-]

That's not very relevant to the benefits or otherwise fo consequentialism and deontology.