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drethelin comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 17 July 2013 05:33:22PM 2 points [-]

If I'm a lazy bum and mostly content to be a lazy bum I will stay a lazy bum. Any interventions that are not doable by a lazy person will not be done. But if I have even a slight preference for being awesome, and there's an intervention that is fairly easy to implement, I want to do it. Insofar as you'd prefer people who share your values to be NOT lazy bums, you should if possible encourage them to be self-improvers.