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Pavitra comments on Remaining human - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Pavitra 13 June 2011 12:36:55AM 1 point [-]

Maybe. I actually make it a general principle that when I'm talking to someone, I take as given that their professed beliefs are basically right; I know what I believe in the background, so that I can try to lead them toward that, but I basically try to speak in their terms. I don't really evaluate all that much whether I actually believe what they're saying. For purposes of talking to you, I assume that you are what you say you are; privately, I might have my own doubts, but the actual credence only ever comes up in certain decision-theoretic situations.

(Average on what attribute, among what group? Surely I don't have below-mean intelligence for a currently-alive human.)

Comment author: Clippy 22 June 2011 04:40:30PM 3 points [-]

Average on what attribute, among what group? Surely I don't have below-mean intelligence for a currently-alive human.

Below average on the scale of human goodness. Good humans promote paperclips more than the average human; bad humans do the reverse.