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The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics (2015) (jaibot.com)
2 points by O__________O on Feb 2, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Corollary: Asymmetric Justice, where you judge bad outcomes whenever they occur but only count good outcomes with good intentions, such that taking action in general becomes immoral compared to inaction. I do this a lot, as in his example about feeling bad that buying a tomato prevents someone else from having that tomato.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YRgMCXMbkKBZgMz4M/asymmetric...


Agree, there’s a lot of bias, including proximity bias. For example, research shows real world judges tend to be more kind after lunch break, oscillate between hard/soft rulings, etc.




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