From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 02:39:37 MST
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:12:21PM -0500, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
> >
> >I seriously doubt that the pursuit of truth leads to ethics.
>
> It does, or at least I think it would very strongly tend in that direction
> given a human emotional background. It just takes a *lot* of truth before
> the effects get strong enough to play a dominant factor in forming your
> personality
This amount of truthseeking is very rarely seen even among scientists
and philosophers. So even if your conclusion is correct, it plays a
minimal role in making people ethical today.
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