xamdam comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - LessWrong

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Comment author: xamdam 08 October 2010 12:47:45AM 2 points [-]

Thanks, that is a deeper understanding than I got from it second - hand (though I did not think it meant wireheading). I understood it to warn having and reacting to false sense of control, which I often see, "accepting that there are (many) things you cannot change".