Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 07:05:12AM 16 points [-]

I just looked over my shoulder and asked. Turns out your question is a practical one - MBlume says he would go monogamous for me if I wanted. If he'd said this before I hacked poly, I wouldn't have hacked poly. (He wouldn't have said it then - he needed the information of how our relationship has gone for the past month.) Given that I'm now poly, and that we both have other partners/prospects who we'd be somewhat distressed to give up, I'm not planning to reverse the hack. It's a matter of hassle and loss aversion mostly. But I do find it meaningful that he would monogamize himself if I were not sufficiently superpowered to have rendered it unnecessary.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 August 2011 08:47:30AM 6 points [-]

If he'd said this before I hacked poly, I wouldn't have hacked poly... Given that I'm now poly, and that we both have other partners/prospects who we'd be somewhat distressed to give up, I'm not planning to reverse the hack.

Sounds like a pretty definitive answer to the "You just went poly for the guy!" objection.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 August 2011 09:48:25AM 8 points [-]

Sounds like a pretty definitive answer to the "You just went poly for the guy!" objection.

It does. Even though it doesn't refute the "You just went poly for the guy!" assertion at all. It could well fit with "I just went with poly for the guy and it is awesome! You should try it!"

Comment author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 05:24:40PM 26 points [-]

...I did just go poly for the guy. I just think that's okay.

Comment author: ciphergoth 30 August 2011 09:13:55AM 5 points [-]

People move city to be with people; is this necessarily any different? Especially when you know lots of people living in that city going "move here, we love it here!"

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 August 2011 08:35:30PM 4 points [-]

I find this oddly cheerful. Go for it, then!