Erik3 comments on Protected From Myself - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 12:09AM

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Comment author: Erik3 19 October 2008 06:16:37AM 1 point [-]

simon: "Just for the sake of devil's advocacy: 4) You want to attribute good things to your ethics, and thus find a way to interpret events that enables you to do so."

Eliezer: "The universe isn't set up to reward virtue - so why did my ethics help so much? Am I only imagining the phenomenon? That's one possibility."