Caledonian2 comments on Causality and Moral Responsibility - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 June 2008 08:34AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 13 June 2008 10:43:47PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't it depend on what was changed, and how?

And I don't see that what the alien did was necessarily bad, either. If the 'tweaking' involved simply having a conservation, how can the alien be considered responsible for the person's actions? Especially if the alien has no means to anticipate the outcome of its intervention.