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lessdazed comments on Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: Rubix 28 October 2011 07:02PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 30 October 2011 01:50:36AM 2 points [-]

Arguments about how things would be ceteris paribus don't translate well into policy suggestions.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 October 2011 03:46:00PM *  1 point [-]

They can still be relevant when we're not talking about any particular person, though. They're especially relevant when we're discussing future people, who we can't come to a good understanding of but must decide whether or not to affect anyway.

Which isn't to say that we can't take other factors into account too.