mattnewport comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 18 September 2010 12:57:12AM 4 points [-]

If you want a sports car that implies that there is some point at which the best marginal use of your next 3 million dollars would be to buy the sports car. If there is no such point then it seems to me that you don't really want it in any meaningful sense.