Give me just a little credit here: yes I do understand the difference between “this increases my pleasure” and “I should do this”; and yes, there should be low inferential distance on explaining such a point on LW. That’s wasn’t in dispute. What’s in dispute is how much contortion you have to go through to justify why that distinction would be relevant and applicable here (which even the contortion leaves out).
And you didn’t lay it out very cleanly in the linked comment: you just made one distinction that is a very small part of what you have to say to specify your position.
My view is that Alicorn probably perceives certain benefits from not disliking you, such as the ones you’ve enumerated. But evidently she also sees other costs from not disliking you (costs which are probably moral). In her estimation (which I think is incorrect) the costs outweigh the benefits. Therefore, she has chosen not to apply the advice in the OP.
What’s contorted about that? As I see it, I’m just taking her revealed preferences at face value, while giving her the benefit of the doubt that she has the powers described in the OP.
Give me just a little credit here: yes I do understand the difference between “this increases my pleasure” and “I should do this”; and yes, there should be low inferential distance on explaining such a point on LW. That’s wasn’t in dispute. What’s in dispute is how much contortion you have to go through to justify why that distinction would be relevant and applicable here (which even the contortion leaves out).
And you didn’t lay it out very cleanly in the linked comment: you just made one distinction that is a very small part of what you have to say to specify your position.
My view is that Alicorn probably perceives certain benefits from not disliking you, such as the ones you’ve enumerated. But evidently she also sees other costs from not disliking you (costs which are probably moral). In her estimation (which I think is incorrect) the costs outweigh the benefits. Therefore, she has chosen not to apply the advice in the OP.
What’s contorted about that? As I see it, I’m just taking her revealed preferences at face value, while giving her the benefit of the doubt that she has the powers described in the OP.