DanielLC comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 14 January 2012 05:30:43PM 0 points [-]

But I wonder whether thinking "How can I earn money?" gets specialization of labor as well / better than thinking "What's interesting to me?"

It might result in people trying and failing to do things that pay a lot, rather than try and succeed at things they're well-suited for.

Comment author: DanielLC 14 January 2012 05:38:59PM 0 points [-]

If you know that will be a problem, I think you're smart enough to figure out that you have to do something you're interested in. If not, you're not going to come up with this as a guideline in the first place.