Jiro comments on Against Maturity - LessWrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 February 2009 11:34PM

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Comment author: Jiro 22 October 2014 07:15:07PM 0 points [-]

why would anyone want to do anything that stopped them from thinking well?

The obvious answer is that thinking well is not a terminal value.

It's like asking "why do people play Quake? You don't learn anything from it, plus it makes you tired and uses up time that could have been used for thinking."

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2014 07:35:51PM -1 points [-]

A better example is that getting into bed with an attractive person of the preferred sex usually stops one from "thinking well" :-D