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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Reay 18 July 2014 09:55:21AM -1 points [-]

To the extent that we care about causing people to become better at reasoning about ethics, it seems like we ought to be able to do better than this.

What would you propose as an alternative?