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amcknight 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: amcknight 21 August 2012 10:41:20PM 10 points [-]

citations please! I doubt that most dictators think they are benevolent and are consequentialists.

Comment author: Decius 22 August 2012 01:51:10PM 2 points [-]

I think that most dictators who make it into history books think about benevolence differently than most people.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 September 2012 06:03:12AM *  0 points [-]

citations please! I doubt that most dictators think they are benevolent and are consequentialists.

Thankyou! I get tired of the whole "everybody thinks they are good" nonsense I hear all the time. I call it mind-projection. Some people just don't care.