A system can be more evil than the sum of the evil of its human parts. If you don’t account for emergent evil, you’ll end up with a useless morality where you can’t distinguish between people within human range of good/evil at all. It’s like adding a big constant to your y-axis.
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Which is to say I’m a moral relativist I suppose and I try not to judge the present by the standards (and new reachable ground states) of speculative futures. Even if that means the future judges me poorly.
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I was about to tweet “surely human civilization is an emergent property of human intelligence” but that’s maybe the wrong way round. The best analysis of evil is probably granny weatherwax - treating people like things
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