Nornagest comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 29 May 2011 06:30:02PM *  8 points [-]

Not necessarily relevant. I read wedrifid's comment as being less about fooming per se and more about what I might describe as the virtue of munchkinism: taking advantages available to you even when they conflict with implicit understandings about your role in life. We could debate to what extent that's a core or necessary rational virtue, but I don't think it's very debatable that it is a rational virtue.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 May 2011 06:50:44PM *  2 points [-]

Not necessarily relevant. I read wedrifid's comment as being less about fooming per se and more about what I might describe as the virtue of munchkinism: taking advantages available to you even when they conflict with implicit understandings about your role in life.

Exactly.

We could debate to what extent that's a core or necessary rational virtue, but I don't think it's very debatable that it is a rational virtue.

It's not core or necessary unless, say, the aliens with superior technology and the evil gods are trying to kill you.