orthonormal comments on Malice, Stupidity, or Egalité Irréfléchie? - Less Wrong

24 Post author: lionhearted 13 June 2011 08:57PM

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Comment author: Tiiba 13 June 2011 11:33:53PM 4 points [-]

There's also the possibility that you're being inconvenient to them. Say, vegetarians can't go to a true meat lover's party, people who get up early might need ME to get up eartly for whatever reason, and if your business fails and I live with you, that's obviously my problem.

Comment author: orthonormal 17 June 2011 09:29:18PM 0 points [-]

This hypothesis is at least falsifiable- one can test whether the degree of a peer group's opposition to one of their members changing depends substantially on these sort of inconveniences.