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RolfAndreassen comments on r/HPMOR on heroic responsibility - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 August 2012 11:08AM

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 21 August 2012 07:03:22PM 3 points [-]

Well yes, but what exactly are you going to substitute for individual judgement of what actions to take? If you decide that following code X, and enforcing that others do so as well, even when it seems like breaking the code this one time would give better results, is the best course of action (perhaps for reasons of precommitment or average-case utility or what-have-you)... then oops, you seem to have made a decision in accordance with your best judgement, there.