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ArisKatsaris comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 11 April 2012 12:47:33PM *  16 points [-]

Anyone care to name three?

  1. Because evil causes people to feel pain.
  2. Because evil causes people to feel grief.
  3. Because evil causes people to feel fear.
Comment author: Baughn 11 April 2012 01:41:49PM *  0 points [-]

Of course they do.

Why is this a problem?

Assuming evil people will be susceptible to such arguments is similar to assuming a sufficiently smart AI will automatically become good.. well, you didn't say otherwise.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 11 April 2012 01:47:26PM *  31 points [-]

Assuming evil people will be susceptible to such arguments

I didn't say evil people will be susceptible to such arguments.

I was naming three reasons that good people have to not be evil, not three arguments that would cause evil people to stop being evil.

Comment author: Baughn 12 April 2012 09:51:53AM 0 points [-]

I think Dumbledore was looking for the latter, though.

He isn't going to find any, but that's beside the point.

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