NancyLebovitz comments on Is my theory on why censorship is wrong correct? - Less Wrong

-24 Post author: hoofwall 12 April 2015 04:03AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 April 2015 07:16:06PM 5 points [-]

Reputation has a lot to do with how people get treated. A bad reputation can mean anything from lost opportunities to being tortured to death.

One of the ways bad reputations are established and maintained is through insults, so it isn't irrational for people to react negatively to at least some insults.

You say you hate people, and you've given some evidence of that in your writing. Considering that we're people, is there any reason for us to want you on this blog?

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 13 April 2015 12:27:52AM 7 points [-]

Well, given that one of the purposes of LW/MIRI is to formulate morality explicitly enough to program it into an AI, attempting to explain it to a low-functioning autistic like hoodwall may be good practice.