ad2 comments on Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 February 2009 08:45AM

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Comment author: ad2 04 February 2009 08:01:24PM 0 points [-]

The Superhappies could have transformed humanity and the Babyeaters without changing themselves or their way of life in the slightest, and no one would have been able to stop them.

Why would I care about whether the Superhappies change themselves to appreciate literature or beauty? What I want is for them to not change me.

All their "fair-mindedness" does is guarantee that I will be changed again, also against my will, the next time they encounter strangers.

Comment author: complexmeme 26 December 2012 04:27:57PM 2 points [-]

that I will be changed again, also against my will, the next time

The next time, it presumably wouldn't be against your will, due to the first set of changes.