What kind of bizarre religious thinking are you pushing here? I can’t imagine why I would want to place others needs ahead of my desires. How is that rational? My advice is to maximize your positive impact on yourself and forget the world—it will get along just fine without your help.
Like (probably most) other people, Caesium gets utility from helping other people. How could you possibly know whether Caesium is acting irrationally without knowing his or her preferences?
My mistake; I took an obvious troll for a confused newbie. I will adopt the norm of checking past comments before replying. I am actually quite shocked; I’m not used to seeing this kind of thing on Less Wrong.
Calling someone a troll is meaningless; my posts consist of words and thoughts like any others. I still can’t think of any rational reason why anyone would want to adopt this missionary mindset, but as a supreme individualist I’m not going to make an issue out of it as long as they stay out of my business.
Why are people here so uncomfortable with adversarial positions? Remember the wise words of the Sith Master Uthar Wynn:
“Without strife, your victory has no meaning. Without strife, you do not advance. Without strife, there is only stagnation.”
What kind of bizarre religious thinking are you pushing here? I can’t imagine why I would want to place others needs ahead of my desires. How is that rational? My advice is to maximize your positive impact on yourself and forget the world—it will get along just fine without your help.
Like (probably most) other people, Caesium gets utility from helping other people. How could you possibly know whether Caesium is acting irrationally without knowing his or her preferences?
Don’t feed the troll. (If the parent doesn’t look like trolling to you, look at SeanTheMystic’s past comments.)
My mistake; I took an obvious troll for a confused newbie. I will adopt the norm of checking past comments before replying. I am actually quite shocked; I’m not used to seeing this kind of thing on Less Wrong.
Calling someone a troll is meaningless; my posts consist of words and thoughts like any others. I still can’t think of any rational reason why anyone would want to adopt this missionary mindset, but as a supreme individualist I’m not going to make an issue out of it as long as they stay out of my business.
Why are people here so uncomfortable with adversarial positions? Remember the wise words of the Sith Master Uthar Wynn:
“Without strife, your victory has no meaning. Without strife, you do not advance. Without strife, there is only stagnation.”