Gray_Area comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Gray_Area 08 November 2007 07:15:21AM 2 points [-]

Stephen: the altruist can ask the Genie the same thing as the selfish person. In some sense, though, I think these sorts of wishes are 'cheating,' because you are shifting the computational/formalization burden from the wisher to the wishee. (Sorry for the thread derail.)