I suspect that evil geniuses are a myth. There are evil people who are pretty smart, and there are geniuses who close their eyes to evil.
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I think public opinion wants to believe intelligence is completely ethically neutral (as easy to use for bad as good aims) in order to intimidate people out of trying to use thought on ethical questions.
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It may be even worse: the program of using reason to derive ethics is itself being portrayed as 'deeply problematic,' because it is suspected to inevitably going to lead to a place that is not permitted.
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