RobinZ comments on Shortness is now a treatable condition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 22 October 2009 08:48:44PM 0 points [-]

All that is quite fair enough - I expect the rest of our disagreement amounts to conflicting intuitions.

Comment author: gwern 22 October 2009 09:26:59PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, I agree. As I said, my better instincts tell me that for the good of humanity, if maybe not my own long-term interests (as I said, it's plausible the drug would do me more harm than good), to be happy; but the rest of me dislikes being lowered in relative status & potential. Other people may incline more firmly one way or the other.