Yup, definitely
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Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and
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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Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and
… 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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Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and
ideological climate that rewards sociopathic lying and requires, at minimum, premeditated dissimulation from everyone in the conversation.
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Replying to @Meaningness @danlistensto and
… 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
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Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr and
As a factual matter… yes, I think it’s mistaken. It might be a necessary and useful temporary antidote to nihilism, or excessive cynicism.
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Replying to @Meaningness @danlistensto and
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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Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and
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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I think one can just be open to evidence without adopting a prior. You only need to make a guess when you have to act, and usually there’s plenty of time to collect an impression before that. (Not always, of course!)
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