i’m going to just start RTing people inveighing against the evils of cynicism without comment because a world with more credulous people is advantageous and if you can be made more credulous by that sort of thing then you deserve to be
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what even is this late-coming revisionist “cynicism” that everybody hates and nobody likes, anyway? it never seems defined beyond “blob of stuff i don’t like”
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my main association with it is when you point out how basic adversarial advantage seeking will make somebody’s do-gooding program worse than useless they call you cynical to shut you up
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Do you see a distinction between observing that apparent altruism is sometimes self-serving, and denying the existence of altruism?
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yeah, i define altruism in terms such that why you’re doing it has no bearing
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Interesting. I'd be curious to hear this definition, as I'd always taken the word to imply its motivation.
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altruism is when you account costs and benefits to other people at a factor greater than costs and benefits to you
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good is when you account them the same or comparably
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