nazgulnarsil comments on The mind-killer - Less Wrong

23 Post author: ciphergoth 02 May 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 03 May 2009 07:37:08PM 13 points [-]

Most of you are rich by historical standards, and by the standards of the world. So think carefully about just how "rich" will be "enough" to "actually mean something."

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 13 May 2009 08:06:23PM 1 point [-]

money is a stand in for other (harder to quantify) metrics for impact on the future. resource distribution in general would be better if it were allocated rationally would it not? thus we should try to take as much control of resource distribution as we can. In contrast you're speaking from the perspective of satisfying material wants, by which standard we all already live like kings of other ages.