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
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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evil is when you account yours much higher
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malevolence is when you account theirs at a negative factor
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