Caledonian2 comments on Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 December 2007 03:04AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 12 December 2007 04:19:56AM 8 points [-]

Surely, most people would not see that as a goal worth pursuing.

If you're going to concern yourself with popularity contests, you might as well abandon this entire field of endeavor right now. What "most people see" is utterly irrelevant.

Comment author: hamnox 28 June 2011 06:36:27PM 11 points [-]

And yet it's a true observation, and entirely relevant if you're going to concern yourself with convincing other people to resist against being human.