Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 August 2013 06:34:28AM 8 points [-]

Wicked people exist. Nothing avails except to set them apart from innocent people. And many people, neither wicked nor innocent, but watchful, dissembling, and calculating of their chances, ponder our reaction to wickedness as a clue to what they might profitably do.

James Wilson

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 02 August 2013 05:32:04PM 4 points [-]

Counter-quote.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 August 2013 05:41:20PM 4 points [-]

Counter-quote.

Only loosely. The insightful part of the grandparent quote is the third sentence, which complements the moral-greyness issue quite well.

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 02 August 2013 06:26:45PM 2 points [-]

I think it is only slightly insightful, at best. It's a gross simplification of how most people experience, and actually (under-the-hood) perform, moral calculations, and it simplifies away most of the interesting stuff.

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