“It seems obvious, though, that it would not be prudentially rational for Tim to make either choice.”
It is indeed seem obvious—to the other direction! people make this choice, and encourage others to make this choice, all the time!
you can disagree with the mainstream view here, but there is something that is very disconnected from… normal society, in this claim.
The Tortured Toms of the world actually exist, mostly don’t want to die, and a lot of time will object at any attempt to describe their life as net-negative.
more then it’s look like analysis, it’s look like formalized failure in theory of mind, and of just… not knowing people with sucky lives. It’s read as if the writers never talked to such person, or read their post in facebook, or read their books.
assume we are right and everyone else is wrong. then, we are right and everyone else is wrong. but why would I assume that?
I find the luck of self awareness in this post really concerning and discrediting.
“It seems obvious, though, that it would not be prudentially rational for Tim to make either choice.”
It is indeed seem obvious—to the other direction! people make this choice, and encourage others to make this choice, all the time!
you can disagree with the mainstream view here, but there is something that is very disconnected from… normal society, in this claim.
The Tortured Toms of the world actually exist, mostly don’t want to die, and a lot of time will object at any attempt to describe their life as net-negative.
more then it’s look like analysis, it’s look like formalized failure in theory of mind, and of just… not knowing people with sucky lives. It’s read as if the writers never talked to such person, or read their post in facebook, or read their books.
assume we are right and everyone else is wrong. then, we are right and everyone else is wrong. but why would I assume that?
I find the luck of self awareness in this post really concerning and discrediting.