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DanielLC comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Metus 15 September 2014 09:17AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 15 September 2014 10:56:02PM 3 points [-]

Do you mean that, if shown the results, we would decide that we don't like humanity's CEV, or that humanity desires that we be unhappy?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 September 2014 05:06:16AM 3 points [-]

Or possibly that if the majority of people got what they want, most people at LW would be incidentally made unhappy.

Comment author: lmm 16 September 2014 12:08:40PM 3 points [-]

What Nancy said, so 1, and instrumentally but not terminally 2.