Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example

Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by knzhou on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:54PM (#21876686)

You mean this idea?

> A moral person is someone who cooperates with other moral people, and who refuses to cooperate with immoral people.

It's just so naive. A slightly cleaned up version of ordinary tribalism: "we are good and they are bad", with no further justification. Anybody can claim their own tribe is the moral one this way.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by invalidOrTaken on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:19PM (#21876782)

Oh, I certainly agree. But a naive algorithm can be used to predict the opinions of the naive.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by knzhou on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:58AM (#21877319)

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you.

I was mostly reacting because I remember reading that blog post when it came out and thinking it was a neat idea, and now I'm recoiling in horror at how terrible it sounds.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by saagarjha on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:35AM (#21877231)

The article actually discusses this very argument, though in a slightly tangential way.

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