Cyan comments on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous - LessWrong

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Comment author: gRR 18 May 2012 02:19:13PM 0 points [-]

I did not mean the comment that literally. Dropped too many steps for brevity, thought they were clear, I apologize.

It would be just as impossible (or even more impossible) to convince people that total obliteration of people is a good thing. On the other hand, people don't care much about bacteria, even whole species of them, and as long as a few specimens remain in laboratories, people will be ok about the rest being obliterated.

Comment author: Cyan 20 May 2012 01:19:57AM 1 point [-]

I did not mean the comment that literally. Dropped too many steps for brevity, thought they were clear, I apologize.

Ah, the FAI problem in a nutshell.