Nick_Tarleton comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong
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ChrisA, why are you intellectually convinced you should be selfish? Rationality doesn't demand any particular goals. A genuinely altruistic person, if uploaded, would overwrite the "brain code" (a bad analogy; evolved tendencies aren't deterministic "code") that promotes selfishness.