Comment by xpe
1 day ago
Believe it or not, there are lots of good reasons (legal, economic, ethical) that Anthropic draws a line at say self-harm, bomb-making instructions, and assassination planning. Sorry if this cramps your style.
Anarchism is a moral philosophy. Most flavors of moral relativism are also moral philosophies. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a philosophy free of moralizing; all philosophies and worldviews have moral implications to the extent they have to interact with others.
I have to be patient and remember this is indeed “Hacker News” where many people worship at the altar of the Sage Founder-Priest and have little or no grounding in history or philosophy of the last thousand years or so.
I welcome counterarguments, rebuttals, criticisms. I learn very little from downvotes other than guesses like: people don’t like the tone, my comment hit too close to home, people are uninterested in deeper issues of morality or philosophy, people lack enough a grounding to appreciate my words, or impatience, or people don’t like being disagreed with, even if the comment is detailed and thoughtful.
Seeing the downvotes actually tells me we have more work to do. HN ain’t no hotbed for thoughtful analysis, that’s for sure. But it would be better if it was.