CCC comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: CCC 14 October 2014 02:29:33PM 0 points [-]

That is true; but it's enough to create a single counterexample, so I can simply specify the neuronic whip being used under circumstances where there is no social damage (e.g. the neuronic whip was discharged accidentally, no-one know Jim was there to be hit by it).

Comment author: hyporational 14 October 2014 02:58:57PM 0 points [-]

Yes. I didn't mean to refute your idea in any way and quite liked it. Forgot to upvote it though. I merely wanted to add a real world example.