PipFoweraker comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: polymathwannabe 04 January 2016 01:06PM

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Comment author: PipFoweraker 06 January 2016 12:26:10AM 2 points [-]

Does that not-want take into consideration your changed capacity to influence him if you became his child?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 06 January 2016 02:40:01PM 0 points [-]

How would I have any more influence than his actual child does?

Comment author: PipFoweraker 06 January 2016 07:03:12PM 1 point [-]

I would posit that his actual children have a comfortably non-zero amount of influence over him, and that the rest of us have a non-zero-but-muchcloser-to-zero amount of influence over him.