I’m not as high on the social ladder as you’d think, though some of my perspective is probably colored by class views rubbing off on me from other people around me. I have been sort of homeless technically for much of the past couple years and actually think EAs should live in tent cities/off-grid villages. I’ve also briefly researched becoming a professional beggar in a really wealthy place such as Switzerland; this shifted into the idea of becoming a street performer, which didn’t work out.
My perspective was heavily informed by a couple of experiences with people using body language to get really close up to me and ask for a much larger amount of cash than I would otherwise give to the median person. I also had someone yell at me angrily when I didn’t say anything to them when they approached me at night. My experience of the reciprocity trick wasn’t with someone homeless, but with people hawking their mixtape and “giving it away”, as well as signing my name on it, only to take it away if I wasn’t giving them “a donation”. So I’m not lambasting the average beggar, it’s just we need to not let the most dark triad people shake people’s pockets and make it harder for more down-on-their luck, earnest people to be able to ask for help.
It was raining yesterday and I offered $4 to someone who was huddling in a tunnel, but they didn’t take it. I tend to feel spontaneously generous sometimes when the spirit moves me.
Yesterday was novel, I imagine it gets old.
Inurement is the strongest feature here, I believe. Once you see an endless sea of people, then it becomes overwhelming, demotivating, and you stop being as empathetic.
(Meta: Annoyed as heck by the upvote/downvotes here, coloring our discussion; is there a mod out there to not see karma on EA Forum, like there was for old LessWrong?)
You are an amazing alien, a soul akin enough to mine that I feel slightly less an alien for talking to you. I really don’t know why people don’t live stranger lives, when ordinary lives chasing money and status are so terribly depressing. It is nice to meet a fellow denizen of planet Camazotz dancing to the beat of a drum other than Its.
(Does one still waive the apostrophe when they’re referring to a possession of the proper noun It?)
Clarification clarified. If someone invaded my personal space and dark triaded at me, I imagine I would use my bigness and noise to make them leave. I’m sympathetic to people less big.
I feel fairly negative towards upvotes my self. They make it easy to pile on someone without actually engaging with them.
I’m not as high on the social ladder as you’d think, though some of my perspective is probably colored by class views rubbing off on me from other people around me. I have been sort of homeless technically for much of the past couple years and actually think EAs should live in tent cities/off-grid villages. I’ve also briefly researched becoming a professional beggar in a really wealthy place such as Switzerland; this shifted into the idea of becoming a street performer, which didn’t work out.
My perspective was heavily informed by a couple of experiences with people using body language to get really close up to me and ask for a much larger amount of cash than I would otherwise give to the median person. I also had someone yell at me angrily when I didn’t say anything to them when they approached me at night. My experience of the reciprocity trick wasn’t with someone homeless, but with people hawking their mixtape and “giving it away”, as well as signing my name on it, only to take it away if I wasn’t giving them “a donation”. So I’m not lambasting the average beggar, it’s just we need to not let the most dark triad people shake people’s pockets and make it harder for more down-on-their luck, earnest people to be able to ask for help.
It was raining yesterday and I offered $4 to someone who was huddling in a tunnel, but they didn’t take it. I tend to feel spontaneously generous sometimes when the spirit moves me.
Inurement is the strongest feature here, I believe. Once you see an endless sea of people, then it becomes overwhelming, demotivating, and you stop being as empathetic.
(Meta: Annoyed as heck by the upvote/downvotes here, coloring our discussion; is there a mod out there to not see karma on EA Forum, like there was for old LessWrong?)
You are an amazing alien, a soul akin enough to mine that I feel slightly less an alien for talking to you. I really don’t know why people don’t live stranger lives, when ordinary lives chasing money and status are so terribly depressing. It is nice to meet a fellow denizen of planet Camazotz dancing to the beat of a drum other than Its.
(Does one still waive the apostrophe when they’re referring to a possession of the proper noun It?)
Clarification clarified. If someone invaded my personal space and dark triaded at me, I imagine I would use my bigness and noise to make them leave. I’m sympathetic to people less big.
I feel fairly negative towards upvotes my self. They make it easy to pile on someone without actually engaging with them.