shminux comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 31 July 2014 09:22:31PM 0 points [-]

conflate "selfishness" with "enlightened self-interest" for the positive connotations of the latter...

If you have a look at this blog post by one of the more famous ex-regulars, this is basically the "motte-and-bailey" tactics, where motte is "selfishness = "enlightened self-interest" and bailey is something like "let the free market rule".