Esar comments on How minimal is our intelligence? - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Douglas_Reay 25 November 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 November 2012 02:43:32AM *  1 point [-]

Would you grant that many things are valuable which are nevertheless not useful in that sense?

EDIT: I don't mean anything fancy here. Eating a hot dog, for example, is valuable (I'm willing to pay to do it) but not in any sense useful (no one is willing to pay me to do it).

Comment author: Salemicus 22 November 2012 07:37:37PM 1 point [-]

Yes, sure. But I was talking about useful as a quality of a person, not as a quality of an object.

However, as my comments in this thread are getting voted down, I assume it's not really worthwhile to continue this conversation.