Murphy notes that "intentional communities" fail because people don't reward helpfulness and competence, or punish freeloading and sociopathy. The kinds of people who join those communities aren't even *trying* to do that, because they don't believe character matters.
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What I believe is that if a significant fraction of people -- including many of the most productive and morally idealistic -- are deluded into thinking that they shouldn't or can't judge people's character & incentivize them accordingly, we're underperforming.
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Paul Graham's idea of a "good person" may be quite different from Justin Murphy's. But both of them would be wrong to suppress their impulses to associate with good people and disassociate with bad people.
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To be clear, I don’t mean “cancel everyone who has flaws and give no second chances.” Not at all. I mean *proportional* incentives; be more willing to help people the more helpful/constructive you think they are on net.
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And “just say no” to extortion. Don’t help people because they threaten to harm you otherwise.
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Like so-called autism traits, psychopath traits are common in the gen pop. https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/jun/10/the-psychopath-in-you-psychopathic-traits-spectrum … Most ppl are willing to lie or cheat in some situations or contexts; no conscience psychopaths exploit this
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