Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Effective Altruism Through Advertising Vegetarianism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 16 June 2013 07:13:36PM 3 points [-]

The relevance is that my moral intuitions suggest that the blue-minimizing robot is morally irrelevant. But if you're willing to bite the bullet here, then at least you're being consistent (although I'm no longer sure that consistency is such a great property of a moral system for humans).