Are those 2 things mutually exclusive? Do you think they pulled engineers from the "better prosthetic limbs" team and said "sorry folks, due to a cost/benefit analysis of what makes people like Apple, you're all unicode engineers now"?
The demand is for people to feel like virtuous champions of the disadvantaged by just doing something simple, like making an emoji, instead of something hard, like improving prosthetic technology. "Effortless virtue", like "effortless weight-loss!", Is always in-demand. https://twitter.com/contrarivariant/status/984295122203328512 …
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Cheap pretend helping and actual helping are not mutually exclusive, but as the worth of the former comes mainly from masquerading as the latter, I find them worth contrasting. I think a world where people get less credit for fake helping would have more real helping.
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Worth contrasting, true. One way might be more signal-boosting for high-cost helping. Another, criticism for low-cost. I'm not sure how to differentiate the criticism strategy from the other folks who genuinely think neither type of helping is valuable.
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I think criticism of low cost activities masquerading as substantial ones is needed quite broadly, to create an anti-signaling culture. I'm sure I am blind to the many logs in my own eye, but hopefully others will point those out.
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