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@admittedlyhuman Why shouldn't emotional reaction track cost-benefit analysis?

@MemberOfSpecies because system 2 is too slow when you need those emotions right now. because hypocrisy is really instrumentally useful.

@admittedlyhuman So you're advising people on what it would be useful for them to be seen as feeling?

@MemberOfSpecies no, that's explicitly what I'm not doing. I'm calling out the useful hypocrisies. it's what I do.

@admittedlyhuman I'm really confused now. So you're saying emotional reaction should track cost-benefit analysis?

@MemberOfSpecies I'm accusing people of lying about their emotions, or having impermissible emotive strategies.

@MemberOfSpecies norm violation, not rationality violation, since emotions are irrational anyhow.

@admittedlyhuman So they're violating a norm of consistency? But what makes you think there is or should be such a norm?