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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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      That was hilarious :)

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      I was tempted to write an analysis of his GSB Touchy-Feely experience in terms of your sociopaths/clueless/losers framework, but decided that explaining what was actually going on would get too many people too upset.

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    3. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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      The author is clearly smart enough to comment on sjw culture, but chose not to, so it made me suspect he was playing up the naive-foreigner act a little too much for effect, like Poirot does in his mysteries. Still, it was funny :)

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      Yup, definitely

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      What’s masterful is that he’s equally pouring scorn on financial industry psychopathy and SJW idiocy, while being sufficiently indirect that a casual reader could miss either or both

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      … actually, when SJW is done at that level, it’s preference falsification, not idiocy. Which the psychopaths in the class undoubtedly understood; only a few clueless students would have missed the point and imagined it was sincere.

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    7. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Dec 2017
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      ideological climate that rewards sociopathic lying and requires, at minimum, premeditated dissimulation from everyone in the conversation.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      yup yup

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      … and the actual point of the course is to teach you how to do that. I would guess that the professor was hired to be clueless (in @vgr’s sense) and is the only member of the GSB faculty who doesn’t know what the purpose of that course is!

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    10. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Dec 2017
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      I promised myself that I would not become cynical ever again, no matter how bad things seem. I promised myself that I would assume that people's motivations were sincere, at least from their own point of view. Is this wrong?

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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      As a factual matter… yes, I think it’s mistaken. It might be a necessary and useful temporary antidote to nihilism, or excessive cynicism.

      9:28 AM - 11 Dec 2017
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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Dec 2017
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          A more inclusive worldview would acknowledge that people often are insincere, selfish, mean, stupid, and so forth—but also that everyone can be honest, generous, kind, and open-minded.

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        3. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Dec 2017
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          well, it was more about managing my default stance w.r.t modeling others' minds. for practical purposes, where is the greatest harm? false positive sincerity or false negative insincerity? accurate modeling can't be done in general. have to make an assumption initially.

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        2. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Dec 2017
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          it was for my own emotional integrity, so it had a practical purpose for a while. I think it's time to adjust my priors again and become tactically cynical. It's probably much too harmful to false positive sincerity when the truth is that they are insincere.

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        3. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2017
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          I don't think you should think of it as cynicism. A good refactor is finite --> infinite game. If your motive in relating to another person is to continue the game rather than win, easier to accommodate imperfections as both sides grow ('slouching towards the utopian marriage')

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