Sieben comments on LINK: In favor of niceness, community, and civilisation - Less Wrong Discussion
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It looks like all the participants are consequentialists in good standing. The argument is over whose model of the world more accurately predicts consequences.
I mentioned on Slate Star Codex as well, it seems like if you let consequentialists predict the second-order consequences of their actions they strike violence and deceit off the list of useful tactics, in much the same way that a consequentialist doctor doesn't slaughter the healthy traveler for the organ transplants to save five patients, because the consequentialist doctor knows the consequence of destroying trust in the medical establishment is a worse consequence.