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-2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2007 12:31AM

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Comment author: michael_vassar3 19 October 2007 01:18:53PM 0 points [-]

I should qualify this. I'm totally with Sebastian in theory. In practice we can't re-write ourselves as altruists, and if we were to do so we would have to ditch lots of precomputed solutions to every-day problems. We have limited willpower both to behave non-automatically and to rewrite our automatic behaviors, and we should be using it in better ways than by not tipping people in restaurants that we aren't going to return to.