Sarokrae comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (893)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Sarokrae 11 February 2014 12:31:57AM 7 points [-]

This is a summary reasonably close to my opinion.

In particular, outright denouncement of ordinary social norms of the sort used by (and wired into) most flesh people, and endorsement of an alternative system involving much more mental exhaustion for the likes of people like me, feels so much like defecting that I would avoid interacting with any person signalling such opinions.

Comment author: moridinamael 13 February 2014 08:47:00PM 2 points [-]

Incidentally (well after this thread has sort of petered out) I feel the same sort of skepticism or perhaps unenthusiasm about Tell Culture. My summarized thought which applied to both that and this would be, "Yes, neat idea for a science fiction story, but that's not how humans work."