Yeah, that seems right as a potential ‘failure mode’ for explicit ethics taken to extremes. But of course it needs to be weighed against the potential failures of implicit ethics, like providing cover for not actually doing any good.
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Yeah, that seems right as a potential ‘failure mode’ for explicit ethics taken to extremes. But of course it needs to be weighed against the potential failures of implicit ethics, like providing cover for not actually doing any good.