army1987 comments on Is love a good idea? - Less Wrong

1 Post author: adamzerner 22 February 2014 06:59AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 February 2014 09:15:11AM *  1 point [-]

When I think about it, I come to the conclusion that I'm always trying to optimize my happiness.

Optimizing it keeping what constant? I mean, in the prisoner's dilemma what optimizes your score for a given strategy of your opponent is to defect, but if you and your opponent both do that you get a worse score than if you both cooperated.

Romance can be similar. See the xkcd comic “Drama”. (See also “Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth” by Nick Szabo.)

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 22 February 2014 01:43:11PM 4 points [-]

Wouldn't you please post such insightful links not in braces and without proper title but like this:

Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth; by Szabo

Had I not clicked out of sheer curiosity on that link I would missed it. It should be made into a top level post really.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 February 2014 10:59:36AM *  1 point [-]

You know, when I was a kid I was the first to decry the “Click here” syndrome, but now that I've grown ‘old’ I've succumbed to it myself out of laziness.

(Fixed.)