wedrifid comments on The Gift We Give To Tomorrow - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 14 January 2012 02:30:50AM 3 points [-]

If you value love, then you would value passing it on. This equally applies to theistic spirituality, or torture for that matter.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 January 2012 03:30:00AM *  0 points [-]

If you value love, then you would value passing it on.

That does not seem to follow. If I value love why can't I be entirely selfish with respect to it? I might prefer to get more love than everyone else!

Comment author: DanielLC 14 January 2012 05:24:15AM 4 points [-]

If you are selfish in respect to it, that means that you value yourself having love.

When I say "value love", I mean prefer a universe with love to one without.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 July 2012 02:02:38PM 0 points [-]

Hoarding it is going to be especially counterproductive in that case.

Comment author: DaFranker 23 August 2012 12:36:08PM 0 points [-]

Not necessarily, depending on the boundaries you trace on the concept "Love". It is perfectly reasonable that a mind would value itself loving other things or minds, but nothing else. This would mean that whether other things love said mind is irrelevant to the mind in question.