Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes September 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 September 2013 02:01:25AM *  0 points [-]

It's another thing to create a weapon that can only be used to kill O(100,000) people at once.

Clearly a nuke is not that.

evidence for humans being not very moral

Given that both humans and moralities are quite diverse, I don't see any information content in the phrase "humans are not very moral". It's just trivially true and pretty meaningless.

Comment author: DanArmak 04 September 2013 08:22:24AM 1 point [-]

Given that both humans and moralities are quite diverse, I don't see any information content in the phrase "humans are not very moral". It's just trivially true and pretty meaningless.

I agree, and besides I'm not a moral realist. I was originally responding to people in this thread who discussed whether humans could be described as moral.

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