Recovering_irrationalist comments on Anthropomorphic Optimism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 05 August 2008 12:42:53PM 0 points [-]

Carl Shulman: Occam's razor makes me doubt that we have two theoretical negative utilitarians (with egoistic practice) who endorse Pascal's wager, with similar writing styles and concerns, bearing Internet handles that begin with 'U.'

michael vassar: Unknown and Utilitarian could be distinct but highly correlated (we're both here after all). In principle we could see them as both unpacking the implications of some fairly simple algorithm.

With thousands of frequent-poster-pairs with many potentially matchable properties, I'm not too shocked to find a pair that match on six mostly correlated properties.