Read the comments at Hopefully Anonymous’ most recent post. He explains why he has been inactive.
I want you to be altruistic, Eliezer. That’s partly because I think you’re intelligent. I would prefer if some people were more selfish though.
I choose living in comfort for one more year. There are things I might die for, but I don’t know what exactly. Perhaps to spite someone. If other people knew that I had the chance to save the world and were going to punish me for failing to do so, I might not risk their wrath. I also choose the stanger getting tortured, but I might risk the toe-stubbing to prevent a policy of torture. I’d steal Gates’ money (take that, beneficiary of intellectual property laws!) but really I wouldn’t care if you stole a thousand dollars from me and I never found out (unless you meant finding out who specifically did it rather than finding out that it had happened at all).
Read the comments at Hopefully Anonymous’ most recent post. He explains why he has been inactive.
I want you to be altruistic, Eliezer. That’s partly because I think you’re intelligent. I would prefer if some people were more selfish though.
I choose living in comfort for one more year. There are things I might die for, but I don’t know what exactly. Perhaps to spite someone. If other people knew that I had the chance to save the world and were going to punish me for failing to do so, I might not risk their wrath. I also choose the stanger getting tortured, but I might risk the toe-stubbing to prevent a policy of torture. I’d steal Gates’ money (take that, beneficiary of intellectual property laws!) but really I wouldn’t care if you stole a thousand dollars from me and I never found out (unless you meant finding out who specifically did it rather than finding out that it had happened at all).