I don’t like what the post is trying to reify because I think it predicts reality less well than whatever I am using to predict reality
Or
Maybe it predicts reality “okay” but I feel it adds an unnecessary layer of being bitter / cynical / paranoid when this is not particularly healthy or useful.
The latter thing feels like a serious cost to me.
I’m not trying to promote naive optimism either.
But the world this post paints feels “dark” in a way that seems less accurate than available alternatives.
And also seems a bit more likely to lead to adversarial dynamics / Game A / finite games / giving up on oneself and others / less love / less faith / less goodwill / less trying. That is a serious cost to me.
I’m guessing that the counterpoint is… NOT seeing the world this way will lead to getting taken advantage of, good guys losing, needless loss, value degradation, etc. ?
Oh, hm, I think I am noticing something:
I don’t like what the post is trying to reify because I think it predicts reality less well than whatever I am using to predict reality
Or
Maybe it predicts reality “okay” but I feel it adds an unnecessary layer of being bitter / cynical / paranoid when this is not particularly healthy or useful.
The latter thing feels like a serious cost to me.
I’m not trying to promote naive optimism either.
But the world this post paints feels “dark” in a way that seems less accurate than available alternatives.
And also seems a bit more likely to lead to adversarial dynamics / Game A / finite games / giving up on oneself and others / less love / less faith / less goodwill / less trying. That is a serious cost to me.
I’m guessing that the counterpoint is… NOT seeing the world this way will lead to getting taken advantage of, good guys losing, needless loss, value degradation, etc. ?