I take it to mean “Judging yourself harshly = judging other people harshly”. If you think anything less than an A is poor performance, then you will also judge your friends if they get less than an A. If you criticize other people for suboptimal performance, then you put a burden on yourself to perform optimally (if you’re too intelligent to trick yourself into accepting your own hypocrisy, at least, which I think most LW users are).
Higher standards helps push us towards perfection (at least, when they don’t lead to procrastination from the fear of failire), but they also make us think worse of most things in existence.
So the bible makes a valid point, as did Nietzsche when he said “I love the great despisers, because they are the great venerators and arrows of longing for the other shore” and “There is wisdom in the fact that much in the world smells foul: nausea itself creates wings and water-divining powers!”. I’m not sure how this relates to AI, though. It seems to apply to value judgements, rather than judgements about right and wrong (as truth values)
I take it to mean “Judging yourself harshly = judging other people harshly”. If you think anything less than an A is poor performance, then you will also judge your friends if they get less than an A. If you criticize other people for suboptimal performance, then you put a burden on yourself to perform optimally (if you’re too intelligent to trick yourself into accepting your own hypocrisy, at least, which I think most LW users are).
Higher standards helps push us towards perfection (at least, when they don’t lead to procrastination from the fear of failire), but they also make us think worse of most things in existence.
So the bible makes a valid point, as did Nietzsche when he said “I love the great despisers, because they are the great venerators and arrows of longing for the other shore” and “There is wisdom in the fact that much in the world smells foul: nausea itself creates wings and water-divining powers!”. I’m not sure how this relates to AI, though. It seems to apply to value judgements, rather than judgements about right and wrong (as truth values)