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Jiro comments on The Valentine’s Day Gift That Saves Lives - Less Wrong Discussion

-6 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 01 February 2016 05:00PM

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Comment author: Jiro 05 February 2016 08:18:38PM 1 point [-]

This seems to fall under http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/n7w/beware_surprising_and_suspicious_convergence/ . Isn't it a little unusual that EA just happens to be a good Valentine's Day substitute?

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 06 February 2016 06:28:58PM -2 points [-]

I like the convergences article, saw it before. But why wouldn't EA be a good substitute? In one world, we're paying money to the consumer industry for candy and liquor. In the other world, we're paying money to help people have better lives. I certainly like the second world better, and so does my wife :-)