Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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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.