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28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 June 2008 04:15AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 09 June 2008 09:49:03PM 5 points [-]

I second rf and Michael G.R.

I can't tell what concrete behavior Eliezer is advising us against. Per rf, it doesn't seem to match up with the common usage of "devil's advocacy". Is "don't argue as if you genuinely believed other than you do" a good summary?

2) global warming is real and S.Harper and GWB are real existential risk maximizing actors.... Same for oil supporters in Canada and the USA that presently run the world and are actively seek humanity's destruction.

Tangential argument: existential risk maximizing actors, thank goodness, don't exist, nor do more than a tiny number of people seeking to destroy humanity. Beware the Angry Death Spiral.