Your problem is that you didn’t take the implications of Hamilton’s work far enough.
I do say in my essay: “I think Hamilton’s points are good ones”.
There’s an even more efficient way to convince people you are an altruist than self-deception. Actually be an altruist! Human beings are not closet IGF maximizers tricking ourselves into thinking we are altruists. We really are altruistic! Being an altruist to the core might harm your IGF occasionally, but it also makes you so trustworthy to potential allies that the IGF gain is usually a net positive.
You need to look up “altruism”—since you are not using the term properly. An “altruist”, by definition, is an agent that takes a fitness hit for some other agent with no hope of direct or indirect repayment. You can’t argue that altruists exhibit a net fitness gain -
unless you are doing fancy footwork with your definitions of “fitness”.
Your account of human moral hypocracy doesn’t look significantly different from mine to me. However, you don’t capture my own position—which may help to explain your percieved difference. I don’t think most humans are “really IGF maximizers”. Instead, they are victims of memetic hijacking. They do reap some IGF gains though—looking at the 7 billion humans.
I find your long sequence of arguments that I am mistaken on this issue to be tedious and patronising. I don’t share your values is all. Big deal: rarely do two humans share the same values.
I do say in my essay: “I think Hamilton’s points are good ones”.
You need to look up “altruism”—since you are not using the term properly. An “altruist”, by definition, is an agent that takes a fitness hit for some other agent with no hope of direct or indirect repayment. You can’t argue that altruists exhibit a net fitness gain - unless you are doing fancy footwork with your definitions of “fitness”.
Your account of human moral hypocracy doesn’t look significantly different from mine to me. However, you don’t capture my own position—which may help to explain your percieved difference. I don’t think most humans are “really IGF maximizers”. Instead, they are victims of memetic hijacking. They do reap some IGF gains though—looking at the 7 billion humans.
I find your long sequence of arguments that I am mistaken on this issue to be tedious and patronising. I don’t share your values is all. Big deal: rarely do two humans share the same values.