Hm, some references: Heidegger’s Being and Time is the view from the inside of a mindset that fundamentally doesn’t believe in reality plus a claim that this is how all people think.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
The Last Psychiatrist and basically any “redpill” blog (I’m not going to link any) are full of claims that low motives are going on all around us, with specific examples
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Moral Mazes and I think some of the postmodernist authors are arguments that businessmen, in practice, are driven by low motives (and not the relatively wholesome self-interest of the classical liberal ideal)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Machiavelli is the original exposer or low motives but I think by now his insights look pretty tame and few people will have their whole worldview shattered by them
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Reading about what extreme Evangelical Christians actually believe, in their own words, is eye-opening, though it can be *very* intense nightmare fuel. I recommend the blogs No Longer Quivering and Somatic Strength, by religious abuse survivors.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
(Basically I think that’s the key insight; most people are inhabiting a mindset much more like the Quiverfull one than the “liberal” one you inhabit. Even nominally secular & “progressive” people.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Mean Girls, especially if you didn’t attend an American suburban high school. I went to a weird hippie school and thought the social dynamics in high school movies were unrealistic. THEY WEREN’T.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Pretty much all how-to info on marketing makes claims about people having low motives. (Eben Pagan’s stuff seems better than average at saying some correct things. There’s a lot of pseudoscience out there.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
You may hear anecdotes from upper-level business people and even university professors indicating that they make big decisions on “gut feel” and inexplicit social signals rather than sober cost-benefit analysis.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Yeah, this one in particular I know. This doesn't seem that surprising, sufficiently well tuned intuition is indistinguishable from sitting down and calculating
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Not obvious to me that instantaneous gut-feel decisions come to the same conclusions that cost-benefit analysis would.
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I mean, you walk around in the world and do things and you don't regret it every day. Right now I'm contemplating going out for brunch. If I randomly go to Tartine as I usually do vs if I follow an optimal algorithm for decisionmaking under time constraints, maybe I'll go
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Replying to @ArtirKel @s_r_constantin
someehere else, but overall the plan would be similar. On that note, do you want to meet today for brunch?
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