You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on Could you be Prof Nick Bostrom's sidekick? - Less Wrong Discussion

46 Post author: RobertWiblin 05 December 2014 01:09AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (45)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 December 2014 04:11:19PM 1 point [-]

part of "growing up" is adopting boring stodgy professional norms for instrumental rationality reasons

Only provided they are valid instrumental reasons. There are enough boring stodgy professional norms which are there for no good reason at all.