RE: thinking about the unthinkable

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 10:58:58 MDT

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    Lee Corbin wrote:
    > Rafal writes
    >
    >> [Hal wrote]
    >>>
    >>> I'm not that happy with a rule like this, that the majority is
    >>> always right. But what else can we do?
    >>
    >> ### Use some form of consequentialist ethics to derive rules of
    >> conduct independently of intuitions about the propriety of majority
    >> rule.
    >
    > I'm always impressed with your urge to create new systems from whole
    > cloth. Do you think that you might have been a follower of Lenin in
    > the early days?

    ### Extremely unlikely.

    >
    > We ought to be proud of the political accomplishments of the last
    > four hundred years. We need to respect the traditions thus evolved,
    > and slowly guide them towards the main chances that we see. (On this
    > list, those main chances include immortality, great happiness for
    > great numbers of people, and advancing evolution towards information
    > singularity.) We simply have to convince as many others as possible
    > that this is the best course, and getting their willing advice and
    > consent.
    >
    ### You are not suggesting that the majority is always right, are you?

    Rafal



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