I think your trust-o-meter is looking for people who have an unusually low level of self-deception. The energy is Great if you share my axioms or moral judgments, but for Pete’s sake, at least be consistent with your own.
What suggests this to me is the Breaking Bad example, because Walter White really does move on a slow gradient from more to less self-decieved throughout the show in my read of his character—it just so happens that the less self-decieved he is, the more at home he becomes with perpetuating monstrous acts as a result of the previous history of monstrosity he is dealing with. It’s real “the falcon cannot hear the falconer” energy.
This is probably a good trust-o-meter to keep equipped when it comes to dealing with nonhuman intelligences. Most people, in most ordinary lives, have good evolutionary reasons to maintain most of their self-deceptions—it probably makes them more effective in social contexts. Intelligences evolved outside of the long evolutionary history of a heavily social species may not have the same motive, or limitations, that we do.
I think your trust-o-meter is looking for people who have an unusually low level of self-deception. The energy is Great if you share my axioms or moral judgments, but for Pete’s sake, at least be consistent with your own.
What suggests this to me is the Breaking Bad example, because Walter White really does move on a slow gradient from more to less self-decieved throughout the show in my read of his character—it just so happens that the less self-decieved he is, the more at home he becomes with perpetuating monstrous acts as a result of the previous history of monstrosity he is dealing with. It’s real “the falcon cannot hear the falconer” energy.
This is probably a good trust-o-meter to keep equipped when it comes to dealing with nonhuman intelligences. Most people, in most ordinary lives, have good evolutionary reasons to maintain most of their self-deceptions—it probably makes them more effective in social contexts. Intelligences evolved outside of the long evolutionary history of a heavily social species may not have the same motive, or limitations, that we do.