HalFinney comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HalFinney 14 March 2009 03:56:30PM 7 points [-]

Most big issues that people (especially males) spend time on are not really worth bothering with.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2009 06:18:53PM 12 points [-]

Don't most of us believe this?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 March 2009 09:09:02PM 4 points [-]

But people don't know that what they do isn't worth doing, so "not worth" becomes a weasel word, prone to arbitrary interpretation. They do what they believe to be valuable, and what they do is valuable, the question is how valuable. It's clearly not maximally valuable, but even a superintelligence won't be able to do the maximally valuable thing, only the best it can, which is "the same" situation as with people.