Gabriel comments on The curse of identity - LessWrong

121 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 17 November 2011 07:28PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 18 November 2011 05:11:43AM 2 points [-]

if I were to take a pill that made me care entirely about making the world better and nothing else, I would.

Would you sign up to be tortured so that others don't suffer dust specks?

("If we are here to make others happy, what are the others here for?")

Comment author: Gabriel 19 November 2011 02:44:21AM 1 point [-]

A better analogy would be asking about a pill that caused pain asymbolia.