I don’t think this necessarily follows. If Steve stops giving you stuff, he’s still the guy who gave you stuff; you can still value him for the generosity/skill at picking out gifts/thoughtfulness/etc. that he exhibited then; and you can still think kindly of him whenever you use something he gave you.
Can you go into more detail on how these things may rub off?
:)
I don’t think you should be friends with everyone. But if you find that you do want to be friends with someone, it’s good to be able to.
I believe or disbelieve or am suspicious of statements by others for reasons other than how much I like them. (I do factor in my model of how much they like me, as I believe people are less likely to lie to people they like; but this doesn’t affect their epistemic hygiene, their background knowledge, their skills at rationality, or their susceptibility to fallacy.)
(I do factor in my model of how much they like me, as I believe people are less likely
to lie to people they like; but this doesn’t affect their epistemic hygiene, their
background knowledge, their skills at rationality, or their susceptibility to fallacy.)
I could conceive of situations where friends would be more likely to lie than strangers. A friend may lie about their actions if they care about your opinion of them and not care as much about the stranger’s opinion of them.
However, it may very well be that people who I like practice better epistemic hygiene. Indeed, I’ve found simply being around people who are more careful thinkers forces one to switch into a more careful thinking mode, because if you don’t, they’ll tear you into little tiny pieces. However, that probably doesn’t matter that much since detailed interaction can probably get you a better idea of how the person thinks more than this rough heuristic.
I don’t think this necessarily follows. If Steve stops giving you stuff, he’s still the guy who gave you stuff; you can still value him for the generosity/skill at picking out gifts/thoughtfulness/etc. that he exhibited then; and you can still think kindly of him whenever you use something he gave you.
Can you go into more detail on how these things may rub off?
:)
I don’t think you should be friends with everyone. But if you find that you do want to be friends with someone, it’s good to be able to.
I believe or disbelieve or am suspicious of statements by others for reasons other than how much I like them. (I do factor in my model of how much they like me, as I believe people are less likely to lie to people they like; but this doesn’t affect their epistemic hygiene, their background knowledge, their skills at rationality, or their susceptibility to fallacy.)
I could conceive of situations where friends would be more likely to lie than strangers. A friend may lie about their actions if they care about your opinion of them and not care as much about the stranger’s opinion of them.
However, it may very well be that people who I like practice better epistemic hygiene. Indeed, I’ve found simply being around people who are more careful thinkers forces one to switch into a more careful thinking mode, because if you don’t, they’ll tear you into little tiny pieces. However, that probably doesn’t matter that much since detailed interaction can probably get you a better idea of how the person thinks more than this rough heuristic.