shminux comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 November 2007 02:31AM

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Comment author: antigonus 25 October 2011 05:17:52PM 0 points [-]

Loving other men is no more unselfish than loving your car.

This makes little sense to me. Other people, unlike cars, have interests; and loving other people tends to have the effect of causing one to adopt those interests as one's own. What exactly is unselfishness supposed to look like, if not that?