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ChristianKl comments on Should EA's be Superrational cooperators? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: diegocaleiro 16 September 2014 09:41PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 16 September 2014 11:42:10PM 4 points [-]

How should a consequentialist act locally?

That depends very much on the local environment.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 September 2014 07:28:26PM 4 points [-]

Yep. It took me decades to learn this. I am a natural cooperator, and I often end up surprised that many other people aren't, and that my utility that I sacrificed for the benefit of the whole group is gone because of some other people infighting. "Help your group" must go together with "choose the right group".

Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 27 September 2014 05:58:25AM 1 point [-]

Yes, I learned this lesson the hard way as well.