"…I think neoreactionaries’ ideas on how to improve the future are something that EAs should pay a bit more attention to, because a lot of them make sense even according to perfectly cosmopolitan utilitarianism. One example from the distant past is colonial settlement: it’s probably not something that EAs of several hundred years ago would be in favor of, but looking at the results over a very long period of time, the initial costs to the natives seem very small compared to the eventual benefits to the colonists. There are far more people living in the Americas today than in 1500, so if each person’s moral weight is independent of their date of birth, the well-being of the current population is far more important than the injustices inflicted on past natives."
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-Commenter in the Open Thread on SSC
Damn, right now I’m so fucking glad that Scott banned me! AAAARGH! I want the person who wrote this to have a nightmare about aliens killing and eating his[1] family!
This is what I hate about geek/tech culture, that it at all provides a platform for ideas like these.
“eanrx”, I FUCKING HATE YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING WASTE OF OXYGEN!
[1] C'mon.
