“‘I don’t care’ is a trivial solution” is what I think when I care. It sets everything equal to zero. From that point forward, that line of thinking has an arbitrarily low probability of being worth my time. As a matter of efficiently using my mental faculties, I have to care.
In the scenario where I’m trying to change someone’s mood, I’d go on to say that I don’t necessarily have to care about everything, but if unimportant things have a predictable effect on important things, I care about them too.
Then I’d set traps to reveal their motivation to care about something, either through exposing the dedication to reaffirming they don’t care or through saying their ability to question whether they should care requires an answer entangled with what they value, so the only possible answers exclude not caring.
And I’d blather on like that until the real trap, which is where they get invested in something to distract from the conversation with me and start to care out of spite.
“‘I don’t care’ is a trivial solution” is what I think when I care. It sets everything equal to zero. From that point forward, that line of thinking has an arbitrarily low probability of being worth my time. As a matter of efficiently using my mental faculties, I have to care.
In the scenario where I’m trying to change someone’s mood, I’d go on to say that I don’t necessarily have to care about everything, but if unimportant things have a predictable effect on important things, I care about them too.
Then I’d set traps to reveal their motivation to care about something, either through exposing the dedication to reaffirming they don’t care or through saying their ability to question whether they should care requires an answer entangled with what they value, so the only possible answers exclude not caring.
And I’d blather on like that until the real trap, which is where they get invested in something to distract from the conversation with me and start to care out of spite.
I hope this helps or is at least amusing.