• @Amoeba_Girl
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    6 months ago

    “Child sexual abuse is at the same time an appropriate reward for a virtuous person, and an appropriate punishment for an evil person.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky, our best hope for solving ethics

    edit: what the fuck is that thought experiment he’s responding to, even. are those terminal morons unquestioningly assuming a harmful and immoral fetish could validly be considered a “terminal value”? jesus christ

    • acb
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      106 months ago

      The Just World Fallacy is doing a lot of load-bearing duty there

      • @Soyweiser
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        116 months ago

        And also some unconscious ideas on what you should do with criminals. But im certain that Eliezer “master of noticing your biasses” Yudkowsky was fully aware of that. Right? Right!?