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shminux comments on Virtue, group and individual prestige - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: alienist 20 February 2015 01:37:56AM 2 points [-]

One problem is that things like this tend to lead to affective death spirals. You start praising virtue X (which is a virtue because it leads to positive effect Y), then you start especially praising the extremely virtues practitioners willing to do X even when it doesn't lead to Y.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 February 2015 08:59:50AM 0 points [-]

So, like Olympics level athletics, where winning takes skills that are increasingly irrelevant to any other use of them?

Comment author: alienist 21 February 2015 01:36:59AM 0 points [-]

Except most examples aren't this harmless.