Given that I know somebody is a virtue ethicist, I place a prior probability of 20% that they are bisexual, and a prior probability of 40% that they are some variant of highly functional sociopath.
That’s adjusted for overconfidence. I -want- to assign 60% to bisexuality and 80% to sociopath.
Your beliefs imply likelihood ratios of ~10 and ~70 for bisexuality and sociopathy respectively (assuming base rates of 2-3% and 1%, respectively). What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
The two variables aren’t distinct; bisexuality in this case is a “symptom” of a particular kind of sociopathy. (The reason the odds aren’t much closer, however, is that “adaptive sociopathy” has been buried under garbage on the internet since Hannibal made sociopathy “cool”, and I’m unable to relocate -any- sources, definitive or otherwise, on the subject since my last research. I may have to resort to textbooks.)
Adaptive sociopaths would find virtue ethics trivial to implement, as it is characterized, effectively, by extremely effective emulation of others. It’s a brand of ethics which is particularly well suited to them.
Given that I know somebody is a virtue ethicist, I place a prior probability of 20% that they are bisexual, and a prior probability of 40% that they are some variant of highly functional sociopath.
That’s adjusted for overconfidence. I -want- to assign 60% to bisexuality and 80% to sociopath.
Your beliefs imply likelihood ratios of ~10 and ~70 for bisexuality and sociopathy respectively (assuming base rates of 2-3% and 1%, respectively). What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
The two variables aren’t distinct; bisexuality in this case is a “symptom” of a particular kind of sociopathy. (The reason the odds aren’t much closer, however, is that “adaptive sociopathy” has been buried under garbage on the internet since Hannibal made sociopathy “cool”, and I’m unable to relocate -any- sources, definitive or otherwise, on the subject since my last research. I may have to resort to textbooks.)
Adaptive sociopaths would find virtue ethics trivial to implement, as it is characterized, effectively, by extremely effective emulation of others. It’s a brand of ethics which is particularly well suited to them.