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Tag: selfishness

Platist Politics

24 February, 202117 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 11 Comments

I muse on whether there is a link between being easily stressed by having to keep many things in mind and having a rights-based, individualist political intuition. Read more (12 min, 3100 words).

The Prince and the Figurehead

19 August, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 16 Comments

When we misrepresent other people, is it a mistake or do we do it on purpose? Neither explanation feels right to me. Rather, I think we should consider that we often perform "semitentional" actions, which is the result of our agency being more distributed than we think.
Read more (6 min, 2900 words).

A Lament on Simler Et Al

5 December, 201717 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 8 Comments

In response to an article by Kevin Simler I complain about how often people mistake "selfishness" in an evolutionary sense for selfishness in the normal sense. Read more (12 min, 2900 words).

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