I'm more sympathetic to noping this than you probably expect of me. The problem is, lots of people do think publicly listing one positive consequence denotes social acceptability. Until you solve that, a ploy like this could sneakily legitimize slavery.https://twitter.com/egfalken/status/988490277311713280?s=20 …
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
I think the problem is *selective* open-mindedness. That Texas school would certainly not ask for a "balanced list of pros and cons" for, say, communism.
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Replying to @VitalikButerin
I think if you wanted to do this right, you'd start by listing positive features of eating babies, Naziism, and genocide of left-handed people to show how it's done, and then ask the students to list positive features of slavery, communism, and global dictatorship.
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And certainly it's not the place to use the term "balanced view". There's a steel version of this that means "use the same filter threshold for listing positive and negative aspects", but here it probably meant "you should have equal items on both sides" which is exactly wrong.
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