Jayson_Virissimo comments on 'Newcomblike' Video Game: Frozen Synapse - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 29 September 2011 11:03:45AM 16 points [-]

CARSON (turning to KEITH): Keith, would you like a cigarette? Here, this is a particularly rational brand.

KEITH (a bit bemused): "Rational...?" (A slight pause) Oh, I'm sorry, thank you. I don't smoke.

(Exclamations of disapproval from JONATHAN and GRETA.)

GRETA (lashing out): You don't smoke! Why not?

KEITH (taken back): Well, uh... because I don't like to.

CARSON (in scarcely-controlled fury): You don't like to! You permit your mere subjective whims, your feelings (this word said with utmost contempt) to stand in the way of reason and reality?

-Mozart Was a Red: A Morality Play In One Act, by Murray Rothbard

Comment author: Bongo 03 October 2011 11:09:05PM *  1 point [-]