PhilGoetz comments on A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 31 December 2009 02:25:39AM 1 point [-]

Also, math is an implausible goal for a status/sex/power seeking master to instill in slave.

Not really; there are plenty of environments in which you get status by being really good at math. Didn't Isaac Newton end up with an awful lot of status? ;)

Comment author: PhilGoetz 20 July 2011 01:40:34AM *  2 points [-]

Didn't Isaac Newton end up with an awful lot of status? ;)

And yet, no women or children.