knb comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: knb 04 February 2010 08:02:46PM 2 points [-]

But are humans mystified when other creatures behave similarly to themselves?

"Those male elk are fighting over a mate! How utterly bizarre!"

Comment author: Torben 06 February 2010 05:12:15PM 3 points [-]

Presumably, Gamma and Omega have a less biased world-view in general and model of us specifically than non-trained humans do of elk. Humans have been known to be surprised at e.g. animal altruism directed at species members or humans.

I hope for the sake of all Omega-based arguments that Omega is assumed to be less biased than us.