AndyWood comments on Rationality quotes: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AndyWood 01 May 2010 04:16:59PM 5 points [-]

This seems impossible. If you respect those who "can be of no possible value" to you, and this causes others to hold you in higher regard, and if the esteem of others confers any value to you, then those you respected were valuable to you in that way.

Comment author: Gavin 02 May 2010 04:13:19AM 1 point [-]

It might be more accurately rephrased as "can confer no interpersonal advantage on him."

Or perhaps ". . . no possible worth to him other than the satisfaction of having upheld his values."