MichaelVassar comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: Yvain 15 September 2010 02:49:19PM 44 points [-]

I also recently noticed this triad:

Seek sex + money / pursue only pure truth and virtue / seek sex + money

Comment author: MichaelVassar 12 August 2012 05:14:26PM 9 points [-]

To be fair, I think that this triad is largely a function of the sort of society one lives in. It could be summarized as "submit to virtuous social orders, seek to dominate non-virtuous ones if you have the ability to discern between them"