Tyrrell_McAllister comments on New Post version 2 (please read this ONLY if your last name beings with l–z) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 28 July 2011 02:08:42PM 3 points [-]

I like the personal example of using rationality to figure out what will really make you happy. I don't like the implication that what you learned about yourself would also be true of everyone else. For example, the implication that everyone could or should be polyamorous is not adequately justified.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 August 2011 03:03:27AM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. Not an implication I intended.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 08 August 2011 04:14:30AM *  5 points [-]

I got that impression from

  1. your description of your attitude as one of "full-blown endorsement of polyamory" and
  2. your characterization of the main obstacle to polyamory, jealousy, as "'immaturity' and 'neediness'", and as morally objectionable, insofar as it is associated with "the idea of owning another's sexuality."
Comment author: lukeprog 16 August 2011 01:02:03AM *  1 point [-]

Ha! Those are very good reasons to have that impression.

Instead of 'endorsement' I should have said that I adopted polyamory.

As for the second point, I'll try to clarify my position in a later draft.

I will note that among the Bay Area rationalists I usually find myself being the one who has to defend the idea that non-polyamory might be good for some people, in the face of those who basically equate 'rational relationships' with 'polyamorous relationships.' :)

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