Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 29 April 2013 06:26:40PM 4 points [-]

Really. (This sounds acerbic, but your comment is incredibly hard to take at face value.)

Do you also only watch a TV show (or a movie, or a fantasy novel) just enough so that you maximize your future contributions to effective charity (or MIRI etc.)?

What about going out with a girl, or keeping up with old friends outside the field? All that diverted effort consciously calculated to maximize your effective charity contributions, or do you treat time invested differently from other resources such as money?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2013 06:32:20PM 1 point [-]

Qiaochu participated in the last MIRI math workshop. Calculation done.