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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 12:52:26AM 2 points [-]

I do consider the effect of shifting public perception on an existential risk issue by a tiny bit to be worth lives.

So you are ready to kill people in order to shift the public perception of an existential risk issue by a tiny bit?

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 January 2014 12:13:04PM 1 point [-]

I never claimed to be a complete utilitarian. For that matter I wouldn't push fat men of bridges.

As far as the Wikipedia policy goes, it a policy that just doesn't matter much in the grant scheme of things. For what it's worth I never touched the German Quantified Self that contained a paragraph with my name for a long time.

I do however have personal reasons for opposing the Wikipedia policy as Wikipedia gets the cause of death of my father wrong and I can't easily correct the issue as Wikipedia cites a news article with wrong information as it's source.

Should a good opportunity arise I will place the information somewhere citable and correct that report and I won't feel bad about it.

The Wikipedia policy is designed in a way that encourages interested parties to anonymously edit, and I do think that Wikipedia deserves the edits from interested parties that it gets till it gets a more reasonable policy that allows interested parties to correct factual errors without planting the information somewhere and then editing against policy.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2014 03:41:53PM 1 point [-]

I am not talking about Wikipedia's policies.

You said "worth lives" -- what did you mean by that?