adamisom comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: shminux 20 February 2013 07:07:43AM 15 points [-]

If your point is that the best way to achieve the terminal values of a superhero is to have instrumental values of a supervillain, then you better offer a way to cope with the unreliable wetware your utility computation runs on.

Comment author: adamisom 24 February 2013 03:10:17AM *  3 points [-]

If this comment was written by a bot that produces phrases maximizing the ratio of the number of usages of pleasant-dopamine-buzz-in-group LessWrong language to non-in-group language, it would produce something like this.

I say this even though I really appreciate the comment and think it has genuine insight.

Comment author: shminux 24 February 2013 04:03:00AM 0 points [-]

When in Rome... But yes, you are right, of course :(