TheOtherDave comments on Tell Culture - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 01 February 2014 11:49:49PM 2 points [-]

In my experience, people do truly want good things, until those things become universally available - at which point they switch goals to something zero-sum.

What would you expect to experience differently if, instead, people truly want zero-sum things, but they claim to want good things until the universal availability of good things makes that claim untenable?

Comment author: ialdabaoth 02 February 2014 12:03:06AM *  1 point [-]

I'll need some time to think on this. This might just be my tendency to find the most charitable interpretation, even if other interpretations might be more parsimonious.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 February 2014 03:02:19AM 0 points [-]

What do you mean by "trully want"? See the phenomenon Eliezer describes here.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 February 2014 06:26:20AM 0 points [-]

I intend the phrase to refer to whatever ialdabaoth meant by it when I quoted them.

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