RobinHanson comments on Joy in Discovery - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 March 2008 01:19AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 21 March 2008 11:31:19AM 7 points [-]

I'm not sure you can so easily will your motives to be what you wish they would be. If it turns out that you are motivated by status, that may not be a pretty picture, but can it be enough to simply declare yourself to be motivated by puzzle-solving instead?