prase comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 03 September 2012 06:41:41PM *  6 points [-]

I am actually inclined to believe Wise's hypothesis (call it H) that being overly selfless can hamper one's ability to help others. I was only objecting to army1987's implicit argument that because she (Wise) clearly believes H, Dolores1984's suspicion of H being a self-serving untrue argument is unwarranted.