According to Yudkowsky, consequentialists should choose torture over dust specks, since less total harm occurs. Does this turn to actually happen?
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Here, we see another statistically significant relationship (N = 636, chi2 = 39.31, p < 0.001), but it goes in the opposite direction! In a result so surprising I suspect something went wrong with the data somewhere, consequentialists are far more likely to choose torture over dust specks than deontologists or virtue ethicists.
Umm… what’s the surprising thing about the results being as predicted? That they fit the prediction so well?
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Umm… what’s the surprising thing about the results being as predicted? That they fit the prediction so well?
It was apparently later than I thought. Heh. Fixed.