The second guy is just an altruist who doesn’t trust that everyone else is altruistic, so he’s trying to convince selfish people to be altruistic using selfish logic.
I think it’s like, he trusts fear more than altruism. If he had said “hey, let’s split, that’s fair”, the person might have just said “okay, sure”, while lying. It wouldn’t have been a hard lie, because the whole narrative is basically set up to facilitate it.
By instead doing what he did, he throws the guy for a loop and gets him to commit to split out of fear, in a domain he didn’t have an easy script for.
They’re probably both actual altruists.
The second guy is just an altruist who doesn’t trust that everyone else is altruistic, so he’s trying to convince selfish people to be altruistic using selfish logic.
The second guy is this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
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I think it’s like, he trusts fear more than altruism. If he had said “hey, let’s split, that’s fair”, the person might have just said “okay, sure”, while lying. It wouldn’t have been a hard lie, because the whole narrative is basically set up to facilitate it.
By instead doing what he did, he throws the guy for a loop and gets him to commit to split out of fear, in a domain he didn’t have an easy script for.