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Lumifer comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 117 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 March 2015 03:37:29PM *  0 points [-]

people dying is irrelevant to whether one rejoices over a worthwhile tradeoff or not

In the sense that the cost of people dying is already folded into the evaluation of the tradeoff and it still is worthwhile -- yes.

I understand your position, what I don't agree with is that any other view is necessarily "more than a little sociopathic".

Comment author: Velorien 09 March 2015 04:15:55PM 0 points [-]

I think it's the tone and the context that does it for me. It seems less "worthwhile tradeoffs where part of the cost is someone's death exist" and more "I don't care if people die as long as I get enough out of it".

Comment author: Lumifer 09 March 2015 04:45:10PM *  1 point [-]

Well, making psychiatric diagnoses on the basis of short internet comments is a popular and time-honored activity :-)

Comment author: Velorien 09 March 2015 04:55:28PM 0 points [-]

You're right, "sociopathic" was perhaps a poor choice of words. "Cheerfully unempathic" would have been a better way of saying what I was thinking.

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