And yet, people, when giving examples of selfishness, don’t just sample the entirety of human behavior. They point out a specific sort of behavior. Or when naming optimization functions, they might call one function “greedy,” even though all functions tautologically do what they do. So clearly people have some additional criteria for everyday use of the word not captured by the extremely simple definition in this post.
And yet, people, when giving examples of selfishness, don’t just sample the entirety of human behavior. They point out a specific sort of behavior. Or when naming optimization functions, they might call one function “greedy,” even though all functions tautologically do what they do. So clearly people have some additional criteria for everyday use of the word not captured by the extremely simple definition in this post.