DanielLC comments on Protected From Myself - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 12:09AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 19 October 2008 03:19:07AM 10 points [-]

Is it only honesty that has this protection-rail tendency, or have other ethics also had it?

Comment author: DanielLC 27 September 2012 06:52:31AM *  1 point [-]

Other ethics. For example, robbing a bank might seem like a good way to get funding, but there's all too many ways for it to go wrong.

On the other hand, I'm not sure there are any unithical risks that you'd still fallow through with if you were being honest about it.