One of course needs to also look at people who achieve the least (or otherwise have bad lives) to avoid selecting on the dependent variable.
I agree you want to avoid selecting on the dependent variable, but I think for the reference class of 80k listeners you primarily want to look at people who accomplish a bit (e.g. people who only do some EA stuff) vs people who accomplish much more.
I agree, I hypothesize most people of his time period, intelligence and social class are a) less self-critical and b) have substantially lower positive moral impact.
That’s interesting. My personal observation is that the most productive/successful people I know are more self-compassionate on average.
One of course needs to also look at people who achieve the least (or otherwise have bad lives) to avoid selecting on the dependent variable.
Among that group lack of self-compassion seems to have very high prevalence.
(If I recall John Stuart Mill is famous or having a severe mental breakdown at 20 and radically adjusting his world-view in order to make life more liveable: https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1347 .)
I agree you want to avoid selecting on the dependent variable, but I think for the reference class of 80k listeners you primarily want to look at people who accomplish a bit (e.g. people who only do some EA stuff) vs people who accomplish much more.
I agree, I hypothesize most people of his time period, intelligence and social class are a) less self-critical and b) have substantially lower positive moral impact.