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3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 July 2015 09:59AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 July 2015 07:04:41PM 2 points [-]

What distinction are you making between self-improvement and self-modification? Trivially, an improvement is a change, that is, a modification. So presumably you mean something else by modification.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 July 2015 09:43:36AM 0 points [-]

I was trying to get at the distinction between training yourself to run faster so you can get to work faster (self-modification, ie modification targeted at the self) versus telecommuting (self-improvement, ie improvement of the self).