"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote
"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote
Comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky - I may never actually use this in a story, but in another universe I had thought of having a character mention that... call it the forces of magic with normative dimension... had evaluated one pedophile who had known his desires were harmful to innocents and never acted...
I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don't think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.
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"Child sexual abuse is at the same time an appropriate reward for a virtuous person, and an appropriate punishment for an evil person." — Eliezer Yudkowsky, our best hope for solving ethics
edit: what the fuck is that thought experiment he's responding to, even. are those terminal morons unquestioningly assuming a harmful and immoral fetish could validly be considered a "terminal value"? jesus christ
The Just World Fallacy is doing a lot of load-bearing duty there
And also some unconscious ideas on what you should do with criminals. But im certain that Eliezer "master of noticing your biasses" Yudkowsky was fully aware of that. Right? Right!?