When obviously intelligent people seem to spend every last ounce of their advantages to further boringly legible selfish motives (maximizing some weighted sum of sex/money/power for example, and piously devoting small fraction to charity), it makes me wonder wtf happened to them.
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Re: my earlier thread, one hypothesis I like is that it takes uncertainty to eat uncertainty (a variant of Ashby’s law that variety eats variety). So if the world seems level 11 uncertain to you, pursue motives that are at least level 11 uncertain to your best introspection.
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If there’s an impedance mismatch between self-certainty and world-certainty, things get boring and/or dangerous. It’s not that “deep” people have “depths” but that they choose to get out of their depth by learning to want things they don’t understand their own motives for.
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“Man’s reach should exceed his grasp else what’s a heaven for” etc etc
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Alt version: a risk you take in the outer world is only actually bold to the extent it threatens to change who you are. Puts “bet only what you can afford to lose” in a new light.
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If you only grow your external winnings (while perhaps appearing radical to mooks) but leave your self entirely untouched, protecting your psyche like crazy... you’re kinda boring. And possibly also susceptible to the Dark Side and Palpatine’s inane whispering sin your ear.
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i see it as more about greed than selfishness i respect someone who spends some of their energy pursuing pleasure, aesthetics, art more than someone whose energy all goes into greedily stockpiling the ability to pursue these things thru money/power without ever cashing out
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"but it’s harder to penetrate to the underlying self-interest in writing poetry" Mhmm, getting laid?
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I'm talking about good poetry
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the difference is curiosity, no? good poetry is asking a question, not answering it. good banking does not reward (or demand) curiosity.
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