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Pavitra comments on A Brief Overview of Machine Ethics - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 05 March 2011 06:09AM

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Comment author: Pavitra 06 March 2011 08:01:10PM 1 point [-]

Citing the literature makes it easier for your reader to verify your reasoning. If you don't, then a proper confirmation or rebuttal requires (more) independent scholarship to discover the relevant existing literature from scratch.