Kevin Simler

@hamandcheese doesn't give you warm fuzzy community feelings (which are in a sense code for "these guys have my back")

@KevinSimler I still think warm feelings belittles the concept. Compare marital love (sacred) with economies of scale via mating (profane)

@KevinSimler Would love even be possible between two agents that instrumentalized each other that way?

@C_Harwick @hamandcheese I plead bafflement here :(. What's the value in bringing marking something as an "existential" pursuit?

@C_Harwick @hamandcheese you mention career, for example. If a career exhibits ↑ marginal returns, why not explain by compounding skills?

@KevinSimler @hamandcheese Not returns, but utility; and that's not the explicandum but the explicans. It's a way of thinking about the (1/2

@KevinSimler @hamandcheese …sort of activity whose "internal" [sacred] experience differs from its external [profane] explanation.