Dahlen comments on Open thread, 18-24 March 2014 - Less Wrong

1 Post author: David_Gerard 18 March 2014 12:26PM

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Comment author: Dahlen 18 March 2014 09:34:54PM 3 points [-]

Apologies for the nitpick, but didn't you mean ethnic group?

Comment author: Randy_M 18 March 2014 10:57:35PM 7 points [-]

Everyone knows utilitarians are more likely to break rules.

(This is mostly a joke based on the misspelling. I know a sophisticated utilitarianism would consider the effect of widespread lawbreaking and not necessarily break laws so much as to be overrepresented in prison)

Comment author: Alejandro1 18 March 2014 11:42:55PM 1 point [-]

I don't know if you intended your disclaimer to be funny, but I found it funnier than the original joke.

Comment author: mstevens 19 March 2014 12:24:46PM 0 points [-]

I did actually mean ethnic group, but now I see my typo I'm actually quite liking it this way as it's less likely to trigger real-world connotations.