bramflakes comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong

67 Post author: Swimmer963 18 June 2014 04:00AM

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Comment author: bramflakes 16 June 2014 09:53:23PM 0 points [-]

Well I agree with you on all of that. How is it non-causal?

Or have I misunderstood and you only object to the "aliens had FOOM AI go wrong" explanations but have no trouble with the "earth is just weird" explanation?

Comment author: [deleted] 16 June 2014 10:01:38PM 1 point [-]

How is it non-causal?

It isn't. The people who affirmatively believe in the Great Filter being a real thing rather than part of their ignorance are, in my view, the ones who believe in a noncausal model.