Hoping for anything larger than your very closest of friends and family is morally suspect.
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann
On the one side, it usually requires (or implies the desire for) political or social power over others. But also... +
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyaellenmann
... on the other side, even in purely voluntary, non-coercive contexts ("I want to make billions selling electric cars and spend it on curing cancer so everyone will remember me as the guy who cured cancer") ...
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyaellenmann
The desire to have a legacy is the desire to persuade hundreds, thousands, or millions of people that you don't know and have never met to do something unnatural: to regard you fondly as if you knew them and they knew you. It's the desire for a mild form of mass mind control.
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Replying to @random_eddie
how is this perverse, though? there's no coercion involved. you have to convince people that you're noble or whatever, or be notable enough to be remembered
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann
Because me gaining your mindshare does nothing for you. What I did to gain it might have benefited you (I cured cancer! That's a benefit!) but the fame does not ("... and therefore you should have a feast day in my name!").
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyaellenmann
it might very well! if you offer a memetic product that is better than the competition, and
@sonyaellenmann buys it, it's as if you offered a superior book or chair or steak and she buys it. Presumably she purchased it because it's better. "Consumer surplus" !2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Remember me and I'll help you forget all those other losers
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