In my experience, people do truly want good things, until those things become universally available—at which point they switch goals to something zero-sum.
What would you expect to experience differently if, instead, people truly want zero-sum things, but they claim to want good things until the universal availability of good things makes that claim untenable?
I’ll need some time to think on this. This might just be my tendency to find the most charitable interpretation, even if other interpretations might be more parsimonious.
What would you expect to experience differently if, instead, people truly want zero-sum things, but they claim to want good things until the universal availability of good things makes that claim untenable?
I’ll need some time to think on this. This might just be my tendency to find the most charitable interpretation, even if other interpretations might be more parsimonious.
What do you mean by “trully want”? See the phenomenon Eliezer describes here.
I intend the phrase to refer to whatever ialdabaoth meant by it when I quoted them.