Vaniver comments on Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... - Less Wrong

130 Post author: Yvain 24 December 2010 09:26PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 28 December 2010 05:37:19AM 2 points [-]

Upvoted, but disagreed with:

In that way I could easily argue that the original is of less utility than a facsimile, exactly because it encourages such unproductive fetishes, while being aesthetically identical.

It seems to me that scarcity and authenticity can both play into aesthetics, but besides those two contextual variables that's spot on.