Clarifying: what drives besides resentment make people take on outlier personal challenges like building billion $ co, running for prez?
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I think Musk is doing it because he want humans on Mars. I think people building effective altruism are trying to improve the world.
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I think I'm struggling to ask the question in a way that separates psych drives from overtly stated motives/narratives
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For eg, a possible "drive" level thing for EA people might be guilt+empathy. "Make the world a better place" is a narrative
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Ah. I'm unsure psych drives are clearly separable primitives.
Even to the extent they are, I don't know if they can be ID'd externally.
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