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.
On Twitter, I usually use ethical language to describe decision policies. It sounds like the thing you’re pointing at is not implementable as a decision policy unless you actually try to whip as many people as possible.
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If you don’t use “desert” to refer to “the things it is smart to reward and punish people for”, ok, but you will still need concepts for the latter.
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Well, you can make it tautological: "reward people for the right things to reward them for to get X". But (1) they may not exist, (2) they may bear very little conceptual / non-tautological relationship to X, (3) the reward prescription itself may not be incentive-compatable.
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