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

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Comment author: gaffa2 21 October 2008 05:03:05PM 0 points [-]

Highly excellent series of posts. However, is there not a need to take account of more/better data on the aspects of human psychology that these Ethical Injunctions are there to protect against? Eliezer derived the hypotheses from evolutionary theory, but is not more solid empirical data needed in order to more accurately determine how severe these psychological effects are and in turn to more accurately design good Ethical Injunctions? Or will good Injunctions likely be so general that such a level of accuracy is not necessary?