Oligopsony comments on That Thing That Happened - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oligopsony 18 December 2012 03:56:15PM *  8 points [-]

I note that this is isomorphic to any reasoning that successfully persuades my present self to cooperate with my community of temporal selves, whether on collectively selfish matters or otherwise. Why do you hate {discipline|cooperation|TDT|puppies}? I must conclude that rather than expressing propositional content your ideology is a will-to-power on behalf of high-conscientiousness self-communities such as yourself by attempting to disarm my tribe of the ability to pass a marshmallow test, thus leaving more marshmallows for you. I do not judge you for this, but I wish our culture could be a little more honest with itself and be sanctimonious about my values instead.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 December 2012 04:43:34PM *  0 points [-]

I must conclude that rather than expressing propositional content your ideology is a will-to-power on behalf of high-conscientiousness self-communities such as yourself by attempting to disarm my tribe of the ability to pass a marshmallow test, thus leaving more marshmallows for you. I do not judge you for this, but I wish our culture could be a little less honest with itself and be sanctimonious about my values instead.

I'm somewhat confused about how serious you are with this.

Comment author: Oligopsony 18 December 2012 04:48:34PM 11 points [-]

I'm as serious as a heart attack... about tricking you into breaking form.

(Puts on shades, skateboards into sunset.)

Comment author: DaFranker 18 December 2012 07:02:36PM 6 points [-]

I must remark my admiration for your tour de force, as expressing my support for you and your achievements signals that I am within what must now be seen as the cool camp. This support comes to reinforce your upper hand on the other camp, despite the fact that your previous victory was entirely tangential to the thing that happened.