jschulter comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: jschulter 04 April 2012 05:02:19AM 1 point [-]

But it is near-consequentialist: "I'm a hard-working person and hard-working people wouldn't just give up" --> "the act of giving up will make me feel less like a hard-working person and therefore make me less likely to work hard in the future"

Comment author: taryneast 04 April 2012 05:28:52AM 0 points [-]

Yes - it can definitely be re-phrased in consequentialist ways...