denisbider comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: denisbider 25 January 2010 09:04:45PM *  1 point [-]

Sounds plenty selfish to me. Indeed, no different than might-is-right.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 January 2010 01:11:46AM 3 points [-]

Sounds plenty selfish to me. Indeed, no different than might-is-right.

Instead of might-is-right, I'd summarize it as "might-and-the-ability-to-provide-services-to-others-in-exchange-for-what-you-want-is-right" and Robin would presumably emphasize the second part of that.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 January 2010 10:17:36PM *  3 points [-]

You can care a lot about other people no matter how much they help you, but should help those who helps you even more for game-theoretic reasons. This doesn't at all imply "selfishness".