As far as I can tell liberal nonviolence is a very popular norm in EA. At the same time I really cannot thing of anything more mortally violent I could do than to build a doomsday machine. Even if my doomsday machine is actually a 10%-chance-of-doomsday machine or 1% or etcetera (nobody even thinks it’s lower than that). How come this norm isn’t kicking in? How close to completion does the 10%-chance-of-doomsday machine have to be before gentle kindness is not the prescribed reaction?
As far as I can tell liberal nonviolence is a very popular norm in EA. At the same time I really cannot thing of anything more mortally violent I could do than to build a doomsday machine. Even if my doomsday machine is actually a 10%-chance-of-doomsday machine or 1% or etcetera (nobody even thinks it’s lower than that). How come this norm isn’t kicking in? How close to completion does the 10%-chance-of-doomsday machine have to be before gentle kindness is not the prescribed reaction?