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NancyLebovitz comments on Sociopathy and Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: InquilineKea 07 January 2011 07:24AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 January 2011 04:24:38PM 3 points [-]

The specific example I read about was a sociopath who was proud about being meticulous about safety with his private plane. It might be tricky to harness pride for longer term payoffs, especially since default moralities seem to be a mixture of good long term advice, arbitrary rules, and behavior which is convenient to maintain the status system.