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Something to Protect — LessWrong

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In the gestalt of (ahem) Japanese fiction, one finds this oft-repeated motif: Power comes from having something to protect. …

x Something to Protect — LessWrong Quantified Humanism Heroic Responsibility Something To Protect Motivations World Optimization Rationality Frontpage 254 Something to Protect by Eliezer Yudkowsky 30th Jan 2008 8 min read 82 254 In the gestalt of (ahem) Japanese fiction , one finds this oft-repeated motif: Power comes from having something to protect. I'm not just talking about superheroes that power up when a friend is threatened, the way it works in Western fiction. In the Japanese version it runs deeper than that. In the X saga it's explicitly stated that each of the good guys draw their po

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