From ebc6d162144c67bd4ab6ae60a28d6a0f78aa9969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 08:57:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] finish up "Promises I Can Keep" --- content/drafts/promises-i-can-keep.md | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/drafts/promises-i-can-keep.md b/content/drafts/promises-i-can-keep.md index 39b0e7a..823c15f 100644 --- a/content/drafts/promises-i-can-keep.md +++ b/content/drafts/promises-i-can-keep.md @@ -6,18 +6,8 @@ Status: draft "I think if you show any indications of being an egg, you _need_ to marry someone who's OK with you eventually transitioning. Not because you necessarily _will_ want to transition, but because it's likely enough that you need to plan for it." -"I probably don't actually _disagree_. Keeping promises is very important. What a betrayal it would be—to take someone to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health— - -/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/ -/2017/Oct/select/ - -But in the spirit of [Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-debates-should-not-appear-one-sided), I would like to register a note of sadness that we're effectively thereby saying 'eggs don't deserve love.'" +"I probably don't actually _disagree_. Keeping promises is very important. What a betrayal it would be—to take someone to have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health—only to [throw it all away when the cost curve moves](/2017/Dec/lesser-known-demand-curves/)? No. But in the spirit of [policy debates not appearing one-sided](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-debates-should-not-appear-one-sided), I would like to register a note of sadness that we're effectively thereby saying 'eggs don't deserve love.'" "Eggs can have love, they just add a constraint." -"I don't think you understand the seriousness of _just_ adding a constraint. - -"Constraint: must own unicorn." - -In [4]: 7 * 10**9 / (60 * 60 * 24 * 365) -Out[4]: 221.9685438863521 +"I don't think you understand [the seriousness of 'just' adding a constraint](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xqJqZgowy5pPxNNst/inconvenience-is-qualitatively-bad) to a search problem that is [already very constrained](/2017/Oct/select/). Constraint: must own unicorn." -- 2.17.1