knb comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Psychohistorian 03 February 2010 08:01PM

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 03 February 2010 08:51:20PM 10 points [-]

While I acknowledge the apparent plothole, I believe it is actually perfectly consistent with the intention of the fictional account.

Comment author: knb 03 February 2010 09:01:13PM 5 points [-]

I agree. I assume your intention was to demonstrate the utter foolishness of assuming that people value achieving pure hedonic experience and not a messy assortment of evolutionarily useful goals, correct?