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NancyLebovitz comments on The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 January 2012 07:52:40AM 2 points [-]

There's the signalling problem from boasting in this culture, but should we also be taking a look at whether boasting is a custom that there are rational reasons for encouraging or dropping?