wedrifid comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Dagon 04 February 2010 01:25:50AM 4 points [-]

Why are these executives and salespeople trying to convince others to go into simulation rather than living their best possible lives in simulation themselves?

Comment author: wedrifid 04 February 2010 03:30:11AM 5 points [-]

Because they are fickle demigods? They are are catering to human desires for their own inscrutable (that is, totally arbitrary) ends and not because they themselves happen to be hedon maximisers.