The author is clearly smart enough to comment on sjw culture, but chose not to, so it made me suspect he was playing up the naive-foreigner act a little too much for effect, like Poirot does in his mysteries. Still, it was funny :)
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Yup, definitely
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What’s masterful is that he’s equally pouring scorn on financial industry psychopathy and SJW idiocy, while being sufficiently indirect that a casual reader could miss either or both
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… actually, when SJW is done at that level, it’s preference falsification, not idiocy. Which the psychopaths in the class undoubtedly understood; only a few clueless students would have missed the point and imagined it was sincere.
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ideological climate that rewards sociopathic lying and requires, at minimum, premeditated dissimulation from everyone in the conversation.
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… and the actual point of the course is to teach you how to do that. I would guess that the professor was hired to be clueless (in
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I promised myself that I would not become cynical ever again, no matter how bad things seem. I promised myself that I would assume that people's motivations were sincere, at least from their own point of view. Is this wrong?
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As a factual matter… yes, I think it’s mistaken. It might be a necessary and useful temporary antidote to nihilism, or excessive cynicism.
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it was for my own emotional integrity, so it had a practical purpose for a while. I think it's time to adjust my priors again and become tactically cynical. It's probably much too harmful to false positive sincerity when the truth is that they are insincere.
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I don't think you should think of it as cynicism. A good refactor is finite --> infinite game. If your motive in relating to another person is to continue the game rather than win, easier to accommodate imperfections as both sides grow ('slouching towards the utopian marriage')
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