I tend to be very concerned about hidden self-serving motives in myself and other people. This was my biggest takeaway from the FTX incident.
So regarding “extremely reasonable and obvious-to-everyone exigencies”, and “being cancelled … because people are total morons”—well, it seems potentially self-serving to say
I’m going to break this rule because it’s obvious to everyone that breaking it is OK in this case. In fact, anyone who thinks it is wrong for me to break this rule is a total moron, and I should do myself a favor by ignoring their ethically incompetent opinion.
I know you work in longtermist grantmaking—I can’t speak for you, but if I was a grantmaker and someone said that to me during a call, I wouldn’t exactly consider it a good sign. Seems to betray a lack of self-skepticism if nothing else.
Regarding the cluelessness stuff, it feels entangled with the deontological stuff to me, in the sense that one argument for deontological rules is that they help protect you from your own ignorance, and lack of imagination regarding how things could go wrong.
BTW, please don’t feel obligated to continue replying to me—I get the sense that I’m still aggravating you, and I don’t have a clear model for how to not do this.
I tend to be very concerned about hidden self-serving motives in myself and other people. This was my biggest takeaway from the FTX incident.
So regarding “extremely reasonable and obvious-to-everyone exigencies”, and “being cancelled … because people are total morons”—well, it seems potentially self-serving to say
I know you work in longtermist grantmaking—I can’t speak for you, but if I was a grantmaker and someone said that to me during a call, I wouldn’t exactly consider it a good sign. Seems to betray a lack of self-skepticism if nothing else.
Regarding the cluelessness stuff, it feels entangled with the deontological stuff to me, in the sense that one argument for deontological rules is that they help protect you from your own ignorance, and lack of imagination regarding how things could go wrong.
BTW, please don’t feel obligated to continue replying to me—I get the sense that I’m still aggravating you, and I don’t have a clear model for how to not do this.