Surely there are all kinds of other ways to cooperate. A friend can help you move your stuff. You can exchange gifts. You can fend for each other. But objectively none of these are worth the huge chunk of resources we allocate to maintaining friendships and relationships.
Only the upgrades to your worldview you get from interacting with other people is worth the trouble of interacting.
I think this is a very narrow, Straw Vulcan way of viewing the world. The primary value that other people have is the information and updates they can bring to your worldview? That seems like an awfully narrow conception of the value that other people can bring.
Moreover, how can you say, “objectively” that these benefits are not worth the effort? Do you presume to speak for everyone’s utility function here?
Forgive me for stating things more strongly than I mean them. It’s a bad habit of mine.
I’m coming from the assumption that people are much more like Vulcans than we give them credit for. Feelings are optimizers. People that do things that aren’t in line with their stated goals, aren’t always biased. In many cases they misstate their goals but don’t actually fail to achieve them.
I think this is a very narrow, Straw Vulcan way of viewing the world. The primary value that other people have is the information and updates they can bring to your worldview? That seems like an awfully narrow conception of the value that other people can bring.
Moreover, how can you say, “objectively” that these benefits are not worth the effort? Do you presume to speak for everyone’s utility function here?
Forgive me for stating things more strongly than I mean them. It’s a bad habit of mine.
I’m coming from the assumption that people are much more like Vulcans than we give them credit for. Feelings are optimizers. People that do things that aren’t in line with their stated goals, aren’t always biased. In many cases they misstate their goals but don’t actually fail to achieve them.
See my last shortform for more on this
The one about lookup tables?
Yes