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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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You're not interpreting me correctly if you think I'm saying bringing up posaible consequences is banned. My claim is more about what the rules of the game should be such that degenerate strategies don't win. If, in a chess game, removing arbitrary pieces of your opponent is allowed (by the rules of the game), then the degenerate strategy "remove the opponent's king" wins. That doesn't mean that removing your opponent's king (e.g. to demonstrate a possibility or as a joke) is always wrong. But it's understood not to be a legal move. Similarly, allowing appeals to consequences to be accepted as arguments lets the degenerate strategy "control the conversation by insinuating that the other person is doing something morally wrong" to win. Which doesn't mean you can't bring up consequences, it's just "not a valid move" in the original conversation. (This could be implemented different ways; standard boilerplate is one way, but it's likely enough if nearly everyone understands why this is an invalid move)
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.