Your protecting of Knut Haikelid’s decision only comes from your “it is more meaningful that we save lives than that we conform to a particular pattern while attempting it” moral rule (which is, as I argued, not part of many people’s ethics) - or am I getting something wrong?
As for lies on Singularity—a clever skeptic could say “people who are smart enough to expose you in a lie on such a technical matter are also smart enough to help you instead of exposing you, and you even could leave them a clue that you know you are lying that those outside the technical paradigm simply will not get”. It is a difficult technical matter, after all. As for simplicity—is it a terminal value? I think not.
Your protecting of Knut Haikelid’s decision only comes from your “it is more meaningful that we save lives than that we conform to a particular pattern while attempting it” moral rule (which is, as I argued, not part of many people’s ethics) - or am I getting something wrong?
As for lies on Singularity—a clever skeptic could say “people who are smart enough to expose you in a lie on such a technical matter are also smart enough to help you instead of exposing you, and you even could leave them a clue that you know you are lying that those outside the technical paradigm simply will not get”. It is a difficult technical matter, after all. As for simplicity—is it a terminal value? I think not.