PhilGoetz comments on Rationalists lose when others choose - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 June 2009 05:50PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 June 2009 04:04:12PM -1 points [-]

Yes, it's trivial. That doesn't make it untrue. "Selfish" = trying to achieve your values, rather than a blend of your values and other people's values.

Comment author: thomblake 17 June 2009 04:45:20PM 0 points [-]

'selfish', as it's used in ethics and ordinary speech, is a vice involving too much concern for oneself with respect to others. If virtue theory is correct, acting selfishly is bad for oneself.