NancyLebovitz comments on Akrasia and Shangri-La - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 08:53PM

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 13 September 2013 11:58:24PM 1 point [-]

Interesting. I would very much like to also find that LW has much less of that prejudiced bullshit. Can you think of a way that our behaviors might lead to our differences in experience, so that I might experience more of the LW that you are experiencing?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 September 2013 08:44:38AM 2 points [-]

I suspect that I've got some tendency towards "glass half full"-- I tend to notice the good stuff.

Also, LW being better on the issue than the mainstream doesn't mean that LW is consistently good, just that it isn't resoundingly awful.

This update from CFAR is a good example on LW of supporting skillful means rather than just blaming people who aren't doing well.