raisin comments on What resources have increasing marginal utility? - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 June 2014 03:43AM

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Comment author: raisin 14 June 2014 01:28:55PM *  2 points [-]

I don't understand the last one. Is the thing that is measured here the quality of individuals you spend time with, or the quality of time you spend with individuals, or the amount of time? In any case, you should elaborate.

Comment author: Manfred 14 June 2014 02:09:25PM 9 points [-]

The last hour I spent with my best friend was more fun than the first hour.

Comment author: raisin 14 June 2014 02:48:26PM *  3 points [-]

That clears it, thanks. The sentence "I'd rather spend time with friends than strangers." just confused me a little because I wasn't sure if you were comparing time spent with friends vs. strangers.

edit. Now I understood it. You were talking about the whole timespan from the start of the friendship until the last moment. I thought at first that you were talking about a single session spent with an individual