DanielLC comments on Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 October 2012 01:50:02PM 0 points [-]

I know there are people that are damned to suffering no matter how many helping hands they get. For reference, look at lottery winners who blow it all & end up back in poverty, or even in debt.

What kind of evidence would you look for to distinguish that theory from the theory that some people need a different kind of help than what they're getting?

Comment author: DanielLC 29 April 2013 06:48:16AM 0 points [-]

The help stated here doesn't seem all that different.

Then again, if you give someone enough money to go to college, they'll go to college. If you give them enough money to make them think they don't need to go to college, they won't. Perhaps giving them less money changes it.

Comment author: Zaine 29 April 2013 06:55:39AM *  0 points [-]

Here's a quadrillion [currency]. Solve suffering.

Here's a billion [currency].

Here's a million [currency]. You're rich!

Here's a hundred thousand [currency]. Make something of yourself - I suggest college or a start-up. Go.

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