Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Superhero Bias - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 December 2007 03:14AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2007 04:40:09PM 1 point [-]

AnneC: That's the first example that came to mind, though I'll give that people's reluctance to seek alternatives may simply be a result of lazy thinking as opposed to specifically "utilitarian" thinking.

You can hardly argue otherwise, since you just inveighed against nursing homes on consequentialist, utilitarian grounds...