fubarobfusco comments on Explicit and tacit rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 April 2013 01:49:51AM *  -1 points [-]

There's a selection effect on such wishes, though. Only a small fraction of humans ① survive to such an age and ② retire with "privileges and accumulations"; many who would desire such a goal do not achieve it.

Comment author: gwern 13 April 2013 02:07:28AM 1 point [-]

I don't follow. Everyone has wishes, the people who retire without privileges and accumulations tend to have started without privileges and accumulations but the opposite is not true (the elderly are wealthier than the young).