1) I am not a good person in any absolute sense. I perhaps do more overall good than many other humans, and I signal caring pretty well so many of my fellow humans put me in the “good guy” category, but I choose to waste resources on my own selfish experience pretty routinely. Suck it, future.
2) I don’t value people equally. I do in fact care more about close friends and family than strangers, and still less about more distant strangers. My “optimization of goodness” weights my own experiences and my perception of people I interact with MUCH higher (like billions of times) than undifferentiated strangers across the world. (note that I do advocate for equality in terms of institutional design, I just don’t think it applies at the personal level).
I bite some bullets.
1) I am not a good person in any absolute sense. I perhaps do more overall good than many other humans, and I signal caring pretty well so many of my fellow humans put me in the “good guy” category, but I choose to waste resources on my own selfish experience pretty routinely. Suck it, future.
2) I don’t value people equally. I do in fact care more about close friends and family than strangers, and still less about more distant strangers. My “optimization of goodness” weights my own experiences and my perception of people I interact with MUCH higher (like billions of times) than undifferentiated strangers across the world. (note that I do advocate for equality in terms of institutional design, I just don’t think it applies at the personal level).
You know how people write ‘lol’ kind of casually on the internet?
I actually, literally, audibly laughed out loud at “Suck it, future.” Thank you. I’m still chuckling, actually, that’s a riot.