knb comments on This Didn't Have To Happen - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 April 2009 07:07PM

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Comment author: knb 24 April 2009 03:29:45PM 1 point [-]

I'm not an economist, and but I think you could model that as a kind of demand.

Yes that was my point. I go on to say that aggregate demand would not decrease.

I recommend Eliezer's essay regarding the objective morality of sorting pebbles into correct heaps.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/pebblesorting-p.html