jkaufman comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

66 Post author: MBlume 25 April 2009 07:41AM

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Comment author: patrissimo 29 September 2010 03:04:33PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: jkaufman 03 September 2011 12:53:53AM 6 points [-]

I started reading this some, and it's perspective is jarring. From the introduction:

""" Let’s be real here – maybe you had some good reasons for marrying your wife – but we both know what really counted was you wanting to have sex with her. You might have done that “Pro and Con” thing with a line down the middle of the page, but whatever was on the “Con” column didn’t matter a damn compared to “I get to screw her!” on the “Pro” side of the page.

I also know that apart from your hobbies, pretty much everything else in your life is just a hoop that you have to jump through to get back to having sex with her. """

They present as an authority on what people think, yet they are way far off in explaining my motivations for marriage and work.