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

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Comment author: shminux 22 August 2012 12:11:51AM *  5 points [-]

I suppose my point is that, if you adopt "heroic responsibility", you ought to put in the correspondingly heroic amount of effort into figuring out what a hero ought to do. And given that your Harry plans to take over the world and then radically change it, he ought to do an awful lot of figuring out first. Probably of the same order of magnitude an FAI would.