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"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?
Bloody hell, really? You'd look at someone standing outside a burning orphanage with a fire extinguisher, but not pressing the button because it would be too much effort to get a refill, and think 'At last, a moral being." ?
Seconded.
Four years it took for someone to object to that comment. Amazing.
Peter, this whole thread originates from the Overcoming Bias site, which means that all the original responses are one after the other in a sequence, not threaded. "That comment" was first responded to by Virge2, then by NickTarleton, then by Unknown, then by Manon de Gaillande... etc, etc...
I suggest you retract your comment as an obviously false one -- and I also suggest you are less hasty in such judgments next time.
Its not obvious that comments are sometimes threaded one way and sometimes another.
Comments from 2008 and 2007 are always OB. Early 2009 comments might be OB, but most 2009 are LW.
And their future potential doens't matter? Would you bother trying to revive an adult who was temporarily comatose?