"human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse"
Oof. Just started The Moral Animal (on @eigenrobot's suggestion) and wow
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I'll get back to you. The first few pages seem fine!
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I'm a bit worried that my ignorance of psychology as a field means I don't know where the research will have headed since he wrote it, but hopefully it's still valuable
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So far it's got me empathizing with squirrels, I guess you can decide whether that's good or badhttps://twitter.com/Cubecumbered/status/1375504817905233920 …
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If empathizing with squirrels is bad, note that I'm reading The Moral Animal because you talked about it on robotfriends, so I guess you can count me as actively harmed (also I was listening to your episode w/ Visa while biking/pondering, so doubly actively harmed...?)
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