We often use people’s self-sacrifice as a proxy for commitment. You say you care about X — do you care enough to give up wealth and comfort for it? To give up having children? To give up eating meat?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
Self-sacrifice *does* indicate commitment, all else equal, but IMO it’s more revealing on the low end than the high end. Someone who never endures even mild inconvenience for his goal is not motivated;
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
but that doesn’t mean that the *most* self-sacrificing people are the *most* motivated. Why? Many of the things that you have to “sacrifice” to a goal are not actually related to personal enjoyment.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
You can save money by locating your org in a cheap place or not hiring too many people; you can also save by refusing to buy office snacks or comfortable chairs; the latter hurts more but saves less.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
You can “sacrifice” unexamined assumptions of “necessity” without sacrificing anyone’s personal enjoyment of life. Some people who are very good at this kind of prioritization are not extremely personally ascetic, but they do really care about their goal.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
The only actually good metric of whether someone cares about the Outcome is whether the Outcome improves due to their actions.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
Most people aren’t anywhere *near* doing “everything in their power” to improve an Outcome.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
Selectively saying “oh he has a frivolous hobby so he doesn’t Really Care” is not informative. Basically nobody Really Cares to the point of cutting out everything extraneous. Even the people living on spartan fare and being “productive” 12 hours a day.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
(IME, many of the people who are “devoting all their waking moments” to a Cause and looking down on everyone else for being selfish, are only doing the types of “work” that are fun for them.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
(Like, I can write 12 hours a day too! That’s because I LIKE IT. It’s not a sacrifice.)
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Nobody “Actually Cares” about Saving Lives as much as idealist rhetoric or fiction says heroes do. Even the people who actually do save the most lives.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
“Oh noez those lazy attention-whore nurses are making silly dancing videos on social media! Someone has too much free time!” Fuck you.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
If you want to know who Really Cares about saving lives or the future of humanity or w/e, look at how much positive impact they’ve had on COVID19.
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