Konkvistador comments on Constructing fictional eugenics (LW edition) - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 October 2012 12:41AM

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Comment author: Multiheaded 29 October 2012 08:16:08PM *  1 point [-]

Guess who says that?

Heh, I guessed Mephistopheles; was just off by a century or so.

Can you not see the romance?

It's hard not to see; such a simple idea, really. The romance of Christianity suits my refined tastes better :) Like Oscar Wilde once concluded from experience that to sin with abandon might or might not bring bad karma but it's simply the most banal, boring, mainstream thing ever.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2012 08:18:17PM *  5 points [-]

ARrrrghh lad sure you don't want to join me crew? We'll sail for Somalia tomorrow! There be place for Christians on me crew just not very good ones.

Comment author: Rhwawn 29 October 2012 10:25:26PM 5 points [-]

But how shall we divvy up the gold? By backward induction, I infer you will give Multiheaded one coin and the rest of us will slaughter each other!

(I guess this is why our kind can't cooperate.)

Comment author: [deleted] 01 November 2012 09:28:04AM 2 points [-]

Aye the benefit o' having a rational crew!

Comment author: Rhwawn 01 November 2012 04:30:22PM 0 points [-]

The benefit for you maybe - me, I like a ship with a lower Gini coefficient.

Comment author: Multiheaded 29 October 2012 08:23:35PM 0 points [-]

My faith is strong, you dissolute heathen! You can't tempt or bribe me... unless you offer pretty boys, that is. I guess I'm a Catholic at heart :)