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

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 19 October 2008 03:36:54AM 0 points [-]

This is a worrisome line of thought, as I consider one of the main underlying points of this blog to question the necessity and rationality of conventional ethics.

What if the belief in God grants you some form of protection against threats of which you are not currently aware? For example, the threat of insanity, which we know to be sort of an occupational hazard among AI researchers?