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20 Post author: Alexei 14 February 2012 07:53AM

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Comment author: Alex_Altair 15 February 2012 07:04:38PM 6 points [-]

impact on strangers' well-being

I object to this being framed as primarily about others versus self. I pursue FAI for the perfectly selfish reason that it maximizes my expected life span and quality. I think the conflict being discussed is about near interest conflicting with far interest, and how near interest creates more motivation.