From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 13:12:31 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> But surely this cannot be true of everyone, can it? I mean,
> if you became intimately familiar everything ever done by
> Ted Bundy, Charles Ng, Adolph Hitler, or Saddam Hussein,
> surely you would still detest and abhor this individual, no?
It is not necessary to hate something in order to oppose it. What matters
it to you if I view Adolf Hitler as a loathsome bug or an abused child, as
long as I counter his plans?
I oppose the punishment of non-punishers; it may be an ESS but I don't
think it's a good thing.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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