wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 02 June 2012 05:14PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (413)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 June 2012 01:00:57PM 3 points [-]

Or if you enjoy the process of building it. Or if the process of building it will help you relax or something so that you'll be able to do more things-that-provide-more-value later. Or if you're trying to impress someone. Or any other of the reason people have hobbies.

Those are all reasons to build things. But not the subject of the context.

If you want something to exist, make it!

Closely related principle: Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately.