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Comment by AndrewKemendo

They aren't separable. The thing that makes you empathetic towards your own family, is also the thing that makes you go kill the other tribe.

"Morality" isn't an actual functional measurable thing, and there is no consistency across cultures so that is right out of the window. Culture has as much to do with behaviors as differences in the brain.

The difference between the "ethics/morality" of an un-contacted tribe in Papua New Guinea and those of Finnish royalty are staggering - yet they have effectively the same hardware.

People need to understand that you can't create something more powerful/smarter than you and expect that there is a way to ensure it won't kill you.

parent AndrewKemendo 10 years ago

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