Roko comments on A Challenge for LessWrong - Less Wrong

16 Post author: simplicio 29 June 2010 11:47PM

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 01 July 2010 05:58:45AM 2 points [-]

Roko, do you think you could lay out, in some detail, the argument for why rational people should busy themselves with getting rich? I'm familiar with some of the obvious arguments at a basic level (entrepreneurship is usually win-win, money can be used to help fund or attract attention for just about any other project or argument you care to have succeed, getting rich should be relatively easy in a world full of both arbitrage opportunities and irrational people), but still don't quite find them convincing.

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Comment author: HughRistik 01 July 2010 05:25:00PM 2 points [-]

So, we have a lot of people here who claim to want to save the world or live forever or be a consequentialist altruist.

Money has high leverage on these problems.

Same with status. I made a similar argument in this exchange, in case you haven't already seen it.