In Praise of Boredom - LessWrong

If I were to make a short list of the most important human qualities— …

x In Praise of Boredom — LessWrong Fun Theory Complexity of value Fun Theory Personal Blog 43 In Praise of Boredom by Eliezer Yudkowsky 18th Jan 2009 7 min read 104 43 If I were to make a short list of the most important human qualities— —and yes, this is a fool's errand, because human nature is immensely complicated , and we don't even notice all the tiny tweaks that fine-tune our moral categories , and who knows how our attractors would change shape if we eliminated a single human emotion— —but even so, if I had to point to just a few things and say, "If you lose just one of these things, yo

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