Eliezer: ah, okay. Didn’t realize you intended the “and happier” bit, though you meant that even if childhood development with all the nasty bits were still in place. ie, thought you just meant something along the lines of “there’s stuff that really needs to get done, pronto, in this world, so it’s a good thing I did things that sped up my climb to rationality and so on so I could get to work on them.”
Eliezer: ah, okay. Didn’t realize you intended the “and happier” bit, though you meant that even if childhood development with all the nasty bits were still in place. ie, thought you just meant something along the lines of “there’s stuff that really needs to get done, pronto, in this world, so it’s a good thing I did things that sped up my climb to rationality and so on so I could get to work on them.”