Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> We all ground in arbitrary evolutionary influences, but some systems of
> thought minimize that arbitrariness and some systems maximize it.
> Historically speaking, the best results, by almost any standard, derived from
> reference to non-arbitrary tests.
Iain M. Banks, _Player of Games_, pp. 160-1:
"Every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it."
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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