For what it’s worth, The Last Psychiatrist used to be interesting, but then he started ranting about how everyone (else) is a narcissist without giving any clue about what a non-narcissistic approach to life would be like.
Replace “narcissist” with “hypocrite” and that’s a good description of Robin Hanson.
Which raises the question—if Hanson turns out to be massively hypocritical on something, does that undermine or support his whole Homo hypocritus paradigm?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Hanson’s whole point that everyone is naturally hypocritical, and has been made that way via millions of years of evolution optimized to handle social politics in small forager bands? Wouldn’t a “non-[hypocritical] approach to life” be something that Hanson’s theory would predict wouldn’t exist?
Replace “narcissist” with “hypocrite” and that’s a good description of Robin Hanson.
Which raises the question—if Hanson turns out to be massively hypocritical on something, does that undermine or support his whole Homo hypocritus paradigm?
I think Hanson’s been showing more variation lately.
Possible, I stopped reading him several years ago.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Hanson’s whole point that everyone is naturally hypocritical, and has been made that way via millions of years of evolution optimized to handle social politics in small forager bands? Wouldn’t a “non-[hypocritical] approach to life” be something that Hanson’s theory would predict wouldn’t exist?
In that case what cluster in thing-space does the word “hypocrite” cut out?