Virge2 comments on Heading Toward Morality - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Virge2 20 June 2008 02:26:35PM 4 points [-]

HA: "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."

HA, do you think that only the burning toddler matters? Don't the carers from the orphanage have feelings? Will they not suffer on hearing about the death of someone they've cared for?

Overcoming bias does not mean discarding empathy. If you aspire to jettison your emotions, I wonder how you'll make an unbiased selection of which ones you don't need.