steven0461 comments on The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons - Less Wrong
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Does "winning" mean achieving your "true" values, or does it just mean succeeding at doing something you're trying to do? In the former case, equating "quality of life" to "winning" sneaks in the assumption that people are egoists (and don't care about quantity of life).
Nicely circular.
That the post is explicitly titled "tragedy of the commons", suggests the position that on the net people are worse off with taking the selfish path, and that current incentives create a problem.