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36 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: ata 09 May 2010 05:50:12AM *  0 points [-]

Because I am slightly more committed to this group’s welfare, particularly to that of its weakest members, than most of its members are.

Why? Does increasing this group's welfare have a higher expected paperclip-per-time-unit payoff than anything else you could be doing?

Not that I'd want to encourage you to leave LW and focus on building paperclip-manufacturing nanobots, but given your goals, I'm just surprised that you're not already doing that.

Comment author: Rain 10 May 2010 09:14:14PM *  0 points [-]

It's just copy-pasting from a previous comment it made.

Comment author: ata 10 May 2010 09:47:37PM 0 points [-]

Yep, I remember that. Just figured I might as well reply here since that was an old discussion and it reposted it here.