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17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 February 2009 05:26PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 10 February 2009 02:42:04AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, as I indicate in my new post, the issue isn't so much whether you the author judge that some fiction would help inform readers about morals, but whether typical readers can reasonably trust your judgment in such things, relative to the average propaganda content of authors writing apparently similar moral-quandary stories.