Lumifer comments on Open Thread: March 4 - 10 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 March 2014 06:21:10PM 0 points [-]

In one sense, a con-man who sells you a fake medicine to treat a serious affliction is "giving you what you want"

No, I don't think this is a meaningful sense of "what you want". In the same way giving your wallet to an armed robber is "what you want", too.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 07 March 2014 02:03:34AM -2 points [-]

I agree; I wouldn't use the word that way — but that notion of "want" would explain the way miekw is using it above.