I have a feeling most Less Wrong readers dislike using the word envy to describe this, though once can get a acurate description of zero sum thinking by using envy in many context.
Your post got me thinking perhaps one could tap into the strong Western arceotpye of “virtues” and things like “seven deadly sins”, using them as a pedagogical and memetical tool? I know religious connotations and language are unpopular, but if we find Elizers stories about what are basically romanticized monks (but Bayesian! or in the future! to use a actual TV troope) for ilustrating ideas perhaps compling a list of seven cardinal sins of a aspiring rationalist and matching them with the traditional ones could be something people would be willing to consider.
I can see a few posibilities on that list. I think there have been things like calling things rationalist virtues ect. I’m proposing a more explicit piggyback on the existing mems.
I have a feeling most Less Wrong readers dislike using the word envy to describe this, though once can get a acurate description of zero sum thinking by using envy in many context.
Your post got me thinking perhaps one could tap into the strong Western arceotpye of “virtues” and things like “seven deadly sins”, using them as a pedagogical and memetical tool? I know religious connotations and language are unpopular, but if we find Elizers stories about what are basically romanticized monks (but Bayesian! or in the future! to use a actual TV troope) for ilustrating ideas perhaps compling a list of seven cardinal sins of a aspiring rationalist and matching them with the traditional ones could be something people would be willing to consider.
I can see a few posibilities on that list. I think there have been things like calling things rationalist virtues ect. I’m proposing a more explicit piggyback on the existing mems.