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"Evil" is a label for a particular subset of human behaviors, which are a subset of all possible minds. I think it's far more useful to define "evil" to be abo
by randallsquared 15y ago
"Evil" is a label for a particular subset of human behaviors, which are a subset of all possible minds.
I think it's far more useful to define "evil" to be about goals which are fundamentally incompatible with your own. Not only does this cover every human example, but it matches the intuitive feel for what "evil" means even if the entity in question is not human, and leaves systems which have no internal representation of goals as morally neutral, like hurricanes, no matter how dangerous or damaging.