Your friend sounds delightful! I think actually, what I’m trying to point towards here is closer to “lifestyle anarchism” than classic virtue ethics. Coincidentally, I found myself defaulting back to explaining my values in anarchist terms when I announced my career transition from active EA community builder to baby influencer in my first blog post.
I guess it’s no coincidence that Rocky’s “on living without idols” is my all-time favorite on the EA forum.
Someone in discord asked about local volunteering opportunities and I said “idk for meatspace stuff impact isn’t really the point” and reiterated my comment to this post and mentioned fuzzies budgeting, then wrote the following:
I generally endorse any way of sampling from the population that disproportionately puts me in the room with sincere nonnihilistic noncynical nondefeatist people who have their heart in the right place, because it’s at least plausible that the “hey, I have an action space here!” mental circuit is more important than how much they’d like to measure/multiply/maximize. The people you meet (at say food not bombs) will vary in their sympathies to the three Ms, some of them just haven’t gotten the right invitation or haven’t dedicated enough scrutiny to it yet and others will never in any circumstance get into it. But almost all of them will have observed something broken and decided not to seethe and cope about it because they were too busy rolling up their sleeves. That makes them precious to me.
Agree with everything.
Your friend sounds delightful! I think actually, what I’m trying to point towards here is closer to “lifestyle anarchism” than classic virtue ethics. Coincidentally, I found myself defaulting back to explaining my values in anarchist terms when I announced my career transition from active EA community builder to baby influencer in my first blog post.
I guess it’s no coincidence that Rocky’s “on living without idols” is my all-time favorite on the EA forum.
Someone in discord asked about local volunteering opportunities and I said “idk for meatspace stuff impact isn’t really the point” and reiterated my comment to this post and mentioned fuzzies budgeting, then wrote the following:
I generally endorse any way of sampling from the population that disproportionately puts me in the room with sincere nonnihilistic noncynical nondefeatist people who have their heart in the right place, because it’s at least plausible that the “hey, I have an action space here!” mental circuit is more important than how much they’d like to measure/multiply/maximize. The people you meet (at say food not bombs) will vary in their sympathies to the three Ms, some of them just haven’t gotten the right invitation or haven’t dedicated enough scrutiny to it yet and others will never in any circumstance get into it. But almost all of them will have observed something broken and decided not to seethe and cope about it because they were too busy rolling up their sleeves. That makes them precious to me.