Emile comments on Inferring Our Desires - Less Wrong

37 Post author: lukeprog 24 May 2011 05:33AM

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Comment author: Emile 24 May 2011 09:32:36AM 0 points [-]

I thought you may have been talking about the Epicureans.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 May 2011 09:38:32AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, they were actually the second group that came to mind in roughly that memespace, but it seems to me what they didn't have was very clear reflection on how they got their goals and how that is relevant. I think that might have been hard to explain or examine without the idea of evolution.