multifoliaterose comments on Fight Zero-Sum Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexflint 19 July 2010 11:33:35AM 7 points [-]

The flip side of this is when people assume that anything bad must have a counter-balancing "silver lining" that evens the overall outcome to exactly zero. This happens particularly often, for example, when I suggest that if it were possible to completely eradicate clinical depression then we should do so.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 19 July 2010 01:42:26PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, status quo bias also seems to have arisen from an evolutionary history of no/(very slow) growth.

Comment author: NihilCredo 28 July 2010 03:21:05PM 0 points [-]

I wonder whether either or both applies to the True Ending to "Three Worlds Collide".