Eliezer, you have misunderstood me if you think I typically suggest “you told yourself a self-deceiving story about virtuously loving them for their mind” or that I say “no human being was ever attracted to a mate’s mind, nor ever wanted to be honest in a business transaction and not just signal honesty.” I suspect we tend to talk about different levels of causation; I tend to focus on more distal causes while you focus on more proximate causes. I’m also not sure you understand what I mean by “signaling.”
Eliezer, you have misunderstood me if you think I typically suggest “you told yourself a self-deceiving story about virtuously loving them for their mind” or that I say “no human being was ever attracted to a mate’s mind, nor ever wanted to be honest in a business transaction and not just signal honesty.” I suspect we tend to talk about different levels of causation; I tend to focus on more distal causes while you focus on more proximate causes. I’m also not sure you understand what I mean by “signaling.”