Will_Newsome comments on Ego syntonic thoughts and values - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 17 July 2011 10:36:38PM 0 points [-]

"non-homicidal"

"virtuous", "not anti-virtuous", "elegant", "not contemptible", "normal"...

"To signal that you are willing to signal. To signal that you are willing to signal as though you think about yourself using their system of categories, and to signal that you are willing to signal as though you are afraid of looking bad by their system of categories, and to signal that you are willing to signal as though you are afraid of being categorized as bad by their system of categories for not being willing to signal as though you think about yourself using their system of categories. It's complicated. It's about predictability, subordination, predictable subordination, and subordination to predictability."