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casebash comments on Survey Article: How do I become a more interesting person? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: casebash 21 October 2015 01:05:13PM 0 points [-]

That rephrase still doesn't work. Someone who is super hot may be super popular, but this doesn't mean they'll be measured as being extremely interesting.

But, addressing your argument more thoroughly, interestingness is necessarily dependent on a perceiver. However, it doesn't have to be relative to the population as a whole, it can instead be relative to whatever subgroup of people you fancy.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 October 2015 02:46:53PM 1 point [-]

That rephrase still doesn't work.

Eh? I'm making an observation, not a normative statement. It is also not a claim about everyone.

it can instead be relative to whatever subgroup of people you fancy.

Correct :-) Subgroups can be arbitrarily small up to and including the limit of one -- yourself only.