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TheOtherDave comments on Under-acknowledged Value Differences - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: Wei_Dai 12 September 2012 10:02PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 September 2012 02:42:56PM *  2 points [-]

Also, when enough people consider powerful people who believe X and act accordingly a personal threat to them or people they care about, being perceived as a powerful person expressing a willingness to consider X causes lots of people to treat me as a personal threat.