Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes July 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 July 2014 03:32:27AM 17 points [-]

He told another table that he was defending a murder suspect whom he was convinced was guilty, and got, "Oh, that's sounds interesting. Tell me more."

My shock as an observer would have been the gross breach of confidentiality. Is that revelation grounds for a lawsuit, a criminal offense or merely grounds for disbarment? Regardless, it would have been a gross ethical violation on the same order of either of the other two offenses. Undermining the justice system like that is Evil (just an evil that is on the other end of the visceral disgust spectrum than the molestation.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 July 2014 11:05:47PM 10 points [-]

Good noticing of confusion, I feel slightly ashamed of not picking up on that immediately.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 July 2014 01:41:39AM 6 points [-]

Good noticing of confusion, I feel slightly ashamed of not picking up on that immediately.

Thankyou, your paramedic IRC anecdote serves as one of the most practical triggers lesswrong has provided me.