shokwave comments on LINK: In favor of niceness, community, and civilisation - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Solvent 24 February 2014 04:13AM

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Comment author: jaibot 24 February 2014 08:03:50PM 5 points [-]

It looks like all the participants are consequentialists in good standing. The argument is over whose model of the world more accurately predicts consequences.

Comment author: shokwave 26 February 2014 04:00:30PM 1 point [-]

I mentioned on Slate Star Codex as well, it seems like if you let consequentialists predict the second-order consequences of their actions they strike violence and deceit off the list of useful tactics, in much the same way that a consequentialist doctor doesn't slaughter the healthy traveler for the organ transplants to save five patients, because the consequentialist doctor knows the consequence of destroying trust in the medical establishment is a worse consequence.