Peterdjones comments on Heading Toward Morality - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 June 2008 08:08AM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 20 June 2008 08:48:49AM 1 point [-]

"If what you care about is rescuing toddlers from burning orphanages"

I aspire not to care about rescuing toddlers from burning orphanages. There seems to be good evidence they're not even conscious, self-reflective entities yet. I think this is mostly about using biases people are susceptible to to construct status heirarchies, Eliezer. In overcomingbias blog shouldn't we aim for transparency about this?

Comment author: Peterdjones 29 October 2012 06:50:05PM 2 points [-]

There seems to be good evidence they're not even conscious, self-reflective entities yet.

And their future potential doens't matter? Would you bother trying to revive an adult who was temporarily comatose?