DanielFilan comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 27 October 2014 03:20:55PM *  1 point [-]

I would suggest ANZAC, Germany, Japan, or Singapore. I realized after making this list that those countries have an important property in common, which is that they are run by relatively young political systems. Scandinavia is also good. Most countries are probably ethically better than the US, simply because they are inert: they get an ethical score of zero while the US gets a negative score.

(This is supposed to be a response to Lumifer's question below).

Comment author: DanielFilan 27 October 2014 10:50:13PM 2 points [-]

For reference, ANZAC stands for the "Australia and New Zealand Army Corps" that fought in WWI. If you mean "Australia and New Zealand", then I don't think there's a shorter way of saying that than just listing the two countries.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 28 October 2014 10:03:55PM 2 points [-]

"the Antipodes"