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gjm comments on Open Thread April 4 - April 10, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 April 2016 02:51:59AM *  0 points [-]

LW norms have nothing on niceness

I am sorry, you want to have norms about what kind of emotions I am supposed to be having??

Comment author: gjm 11 April 2016 12:32:52PM 2 points [-]

I propose to steelman SquirrelInHell's proposal a little. What if we (for this discussion) define "niceness" to mean not the emotions but the behaviour those emotions typically produce? So being nice to someone means treating them as if you have positive feelings about them.

A norm in favour of that doesn't seem obviously unreasonable.