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RichardKennaway comments on Irrational hardware vs. rational software - Less Wrong Discussion

-10 Post author: tygorton 22 May 2012 06:52AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 May 2012 01:08:52PM 0 points [-]

Wants are like pains: sometimes they're useful information that something should be attended to, and sometimes they're irrelevant distractions because there are more important things to do, and just have to be endured and otherwise ignored.