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.
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.