Most people with an IQ of 100 seem to be a net positive for everyone else on the planet. Most people with an IQ of 65, not so much.
With the exception of the proverbial North Korean Space Zombie Hitler Stalin Bad Guy straw man an individualist classiest sexist racist speciest ableist with an IQ of 135 has a higher probability of contributing something to mankind that a selfless person with an IQ of 100 who can’t detect any hostility or ill intention.
But people seem to drop utilitarianism when it can’t help you signal good things. Killing arbitrarily large numbers of certain kinds of people dosen’t seem to be a bad signal in practice. Implicitly violating taboos is. Funny that.
Yea, if you just see to the direct effects that’s fairly obviously the way it is and you shouldn’t take the retrovirus. The main way in which taking the virus would be a good thing is if you’re the only person willing to test it and that it’ll be used for a lot of good on others if you’re willing to test it but not get further if you don’t. I have no idea why my brain picked that very non-standard situation as the default previously.
Its pretty much a slam dunk in my eyes.
Most people with an IQ of 100 seem to be a net positive for everyone else on the planet. Most people with an IQ of 65, not so much.
With the exception of the proverbial North Korean Space Zombie Hitler Stalin Bad Guy straw man an individualist classiest sexist racist speciest ableist with an IQ of 135 has a higher probability of contributing something to mankind that a selfless person with an IQ of 100 who can’t detect any hostility or ill intention.
But people seem to drop utilitarianism when it can’t help you signal good things. Killing arbitrarily large numbers of certain kinds of people dosen’t seem to be a bad signal in practice. Implicitly violating taboos is. Funny that.
Yea, if you just see to the direct effects that’s fairly obviously the way it is and you shouldn’t take the retrovirus. The main way in which taking the virus would be a good thing is if you’re the only person willing to test it and that it’ll be used for a lot of good on others if you’re willing to test it but not get further if you don’t. I have no idea why my brain picked that very non-standard situation as the default previously.