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Decius comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:43:43PM 20 points [-]

Depends on exactly how it was written, I think. "The paradigmatic criticism of utilitarianism has always been that we shouldn't rob banks and donate the proceeds to charity" - sure, that's not actually going to conceptually promote the crime and thereby make it more probable, or make LW look bad. "There's this bank in Missouri that looks really easy to rob" - no.

Comment author: Decius 24 December 2012 05:15:44AM 3 points [-]

What about discussions which discuss flaws in security systems, generally? e.g. "Banks often have this specific flaw which can be mitigated in this cost-ineffective manner."?