Torben comments on Least Signaling Activities? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Torben 24 May 2009 10:35:27AM *  0 points [-]

For instance, it seems to me that someone who makes consistently bad decisions with an awareness of signaling is less likely to suffer additional social penalties than someone who makes similarly bad decisions as part of satisfying an addiction.

You think? In my experience, people are more accepting of, say, winos in the street than they would be with perceived normal people acting the same way. I'd say people excuse addicts' actions exactly because they're addicts.