So we are seeking for ways to spend our down time that happens to produce some externalities that we like?
Yes, if you want more women in the community, or if you just want to diversify the culture, or if you want to contribute to better signaling for your community.
Considering there is a wide variety of ways to spend one’s down time, the same logic applies, only that now we need to optimize for restfulness, entertainment and other functions that down time serves as well.
Have you found a way to optimize for any of those? And is it more useful to spend time optimizing for those factors than just going with your immediate desires?
No, I don’t it’s shifting the goalpost. Wanting more women is not intuitional, it’s a desire. A desire that should be ignored if it’s dangerous, but I don’t see that it is. Otherwise, I say satisfy those desires in your cognitive breaks (e.g., watching anime). Also, I think, however, that that kind of desire leads to satisfying the goal of spreading rationality.
So, we all have desires. We all have spare time that spend satisfying more trivial desires. I believe one of the goals in this community is to spread rationality. Some people have taken up that goal. If you desire more woman in this community, it’s not unreasonable (maybe not optimal, but I doubt any of us spend our leisure time optimally, so that’s a bit of a red herring) ask the existing women how they got here, so that you may try to persuade more women to join this community through similar channels. This satisfied the spreading rationality goal and desire, or it may just satisfy the goal of spreading rationality in that strengthens the community and its appearance. I’m arguing for the weaker justification because I don’t have sufficient evidence for the latter case.
So, we all have desires. We all have spare time that spend satisfying more trivial desires. I believe one of the goals in this community is to spread rationality. Some people have taken up that goal. If you desire more woman in this community, it’s not unreasonable (maybe not optimal, but I doubt any of us spend our leisure time optimally, so that’s a bit of a red herring) ask the existing women how they got here, so that you may try to persuade more women to join this community through similar channels.
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I’m arguing for the weaker justification because I don’t have sufficient evidence for the latter case.
Yes, if you want more women in the community, or if you just want to diversify the culture, or if you want to contribute to better signaling for your community.
Have you found a way to optimize for any of those? And is it more useful to spend time optimizing for those factors than just going with your immediate desires?
No, I don’t it’s shifting the goalpost. Wanting more women is not intuitional, it’s a desire. A desire that should be ignored if it’s dangerous, but I don’t see that it is. Otherwise, I say satisfy those desires in your cognitive breaks (e.g., watching anime). Also, I think, however, that that kind of desire leads to satisfying the goal of spreading rationality.
So, we all have desires. We all have spare time that spend satisfying more trivial desires. I believe one of the goals in this community is to spread rationality. Some people have taken up that goal. If you desire more woman in this community, it’s not unreasonable (maybe not optimal, but I doubt any of us spend our leisure time optimally, so that’s a bit of a red herring) ask the existing women how they got here, so that you may try to persuade more women to join this community through similar channels. This satisfied the spreading rationality goal and desire, or it may just satisfy the goal of spreading rationality in that strengthens the community and its appearance. I’m arguing for the weaker justification because I don’t have sufficient evidence for the latter case.
I think I agree with the weaker justification.