kodos96 comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kodos96 24 September 2010 01:02:01AM 18 points [-]

If I understand him correctly, what he's trying to do is to precommit to doing something which increases ER, iff EY does something that he (wfg) believes will increase ER by a greater amount. Now he may or may not be correct in that belief, but it seems clear that his motivation is to decrease net ER by disincentivizing something he views as increasing ER.

Comment author: waitingforgodel 24 September 2010 02:41:20AM 1 point [-]

Right. Thanks for this post. People keep responding with knee-jerk reactions to the implementation rather than thought out ones to the idea :-/

Not that I can blame them, this seems to be an emotional topic for all of us.