potato comments on Ethical Injunctions - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2008 11:00PM

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Comment author: potato 11 December 2011 11:00:38AM 0 points [-]

Even if at somepoint it would have been better for some particular human to believe false thing X, couldn't there be a set of truths T which would be even better in every one of those situations?

Comment author: orthonormal 30 January 2012 05:48:07AM 2 points [-]

Some of those truths may be above the cognitive capacity of even a smart human. The world doesn't have to be fair.