Decius comments on To what degree do you model people as agents? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 27 August 2013 01:04:30AM 4 points [-]

Sometimes heroic responsibility requires metaphorically throwing a guide to fishing at someone.

Sometimes it requires the metametaphor (metwophor?) of telling them where the library is that contains that kind of book.

And sometimes it requires giving them a literal fish.