TheOtherDave comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 November 2010 02:27:53AM 4 points [-]

Judging from the comments on Failed Utopia #4-2, you are far from alone on that one. Even EY, for all that he asserted that people were just claiming to be OK with it to be contrary, eventually conceded that he would choose that world over the current state of affairs. As would I.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 November 2010 05:36:20AM 7 points [-]

That was because they didn't have the same impending doom of existential risk hanging directly over their heads and people weren't dying all the time, it wasn't a function of "yay more people are HAPPY".

Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 November 2010 05:54:51AM 4 points [-]

Yes.

I didn't mean to suggest that you viewed it as a perfect win condition, nor that you believed peoples' HAPPY level was the most important factor; sorry if it came across that way.