Matt_Simpson comments on Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate - Less Wrong

132 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 March 2009 08:37AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 21 March 2009 08:06:21AM 5 points [-]

I think the positive effect is that they can say that they sell salads, people can convince themselves they intend to buy the salad, and so on.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 21 March 2009 08:09:56AM 1 point [-]

I think the positive effect...

Or rather, another positive effect. These explanations aren't mutually exclusive.

That being said, nice insight.