[im3w1l]

I think most everyone can agree with this: Being 100% rigorous and rational, reasoning from first principles and completely discarding received wisdom is a great trait in a philosopher but a terrible trait in a policymaker. Because for the former, exploring ideas for the benefit of future generations is more important than whether they ultimately reach the right conclusion or not.

[Johanx64]

> Being 100% rigorous and rational, reasoning from first principles

It really annoys me when people say that those religious cultists do that.

They derive their bullshit from faulty, poorly thought out premises.

If you fuck up the very firsts calculations of the algorithm, it doesn't matter how rigorous all the subsequent steps are. There results are going to be all wrong.

[wagwang]

The big problem is that human values are similar to neural network weights that can't be clearly defined into true/false axioms like "human life is inherently valuable" and "murder is wrong". The easiest axiom to break is something like "every human life is equally valuable", or even "every human life is born equal".