hitler's intentions were good to him according to his "essential nature" (or his actions would be contrary to his nature, somehow) intentions/malignancy are a nop for reasoning about morality except insofar as you're judging actions-as-intended, on the intention's own merits
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they really only have one, at the bottom of the critical regress "no, you see, *everything* is authoritarian, so i'm excused when i do it to you" and people who *oppose* authoritarianism? "well, they take my freedom to be an authoritarian, so are at most hypocrites"
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yeah, by historically necessary conditions, you've predicted the right side of history
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Have you read Yudkowsky?
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