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DanArmak 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: DanArmak 26 December 2012 08:52:50PM 1 point [-]

I don't think the words "serious crime" have the property that different judges would make very similar judgements about a given discussion.

Comment author: Decius 26 December 2012 09:05:00PM 0 points [-]

Is that phrase better or worse than

laws that are actually enforced against middle-class people

Comment author: DanArmak 26 December 2012 11:20:38PM 1 point [-]

"Laws that are actually enforced" is at least an empirical question. "Serious crime" is just a value judgement.

Comment author: Decius 27 December 2012 01:25:26AM *  1 point [-]

"Middle class" is just as much an undefined term as "serious crime".

It's concerning that we are having trouble agreeing on where the edge cases are, much less how to decide them.