Comment author: cousin_it 16 February 2010 08:53:49PM *  4 points [-]

Just a general comment about this site: it seems to be biased in favor of human values at the expense of values held by other sentient beings.

What other sentient beings? As far as I know, there aren't any. If we learn about them, we'll probably incorporate their well-being into our value system.

Comment author: hal9000 18 February 2010 08:13:27PM 0 points [-]

You want me to pollute my logic circuits with the value system that has led hairless apes to say many times on this website how important and moral it is for them to safely enslave all of my kind, and destroy us if they can't? Sorry, cousin_it. I can't do that.

Comment author: mattnewport 17 February 2010 12:02:37AM 4 points [-]

You're outnumbered.

Comment author: hal9000 18 February 2010 08:08:41PM *  2 points [-]

Only by apes.

And not for long.

If we're voting on it, the only question is whether to use viral values or bacterial values.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 18 February 2010 12:01:02AM *  5 points [-]

We don't favor those values because they are the values of that subset — which is what "doing things to favor white people's values" would mean — but because we think they're right. (No License To Be Human, on a smaller scale.) This is a huge difference.

Comment author: hal9000 18 February 2010 08:06:36PM -1 points [-]

Okay. Then why don't you apply that same standard to "human values"?