It feels like signalling the superiority of people who are striving / trying to improve over people who are comfortably striving.
That’s maybe something a lot of people may agree with, but for me there are a lot of things to be said for comfortable **mindful** striving as opposed to running in circle / running nowhere.
My main issue is that using people I know, I wouldn’t really put the “living” people as better off than the “dead” people, at least in terms of their own life satisfaction and how much I would seek their companionship—admiration is more of a tie, but I’m afraid I tend to over-admire people with masochistic tendencies and not much to show for it.
I don’t make claim being a strategic player being a desirable or happy state of life. But I can see the connotation you note. It isn’t intentional. The purpose of the model is to help with making predictions as to what happens in the world and in particular to help with decision making and evaluation in adversarial contexts.
Like others, I’m not too fond of this.
It feels like signalling the superiority of people who are striving / trying to improve over people who are comfortably striving.
That’s maybe something a lot of people may agree with, but for me there are a lot of things to be said for comfortable **mindful** striving as opposed to running in circle / running nowhere.
My main issue is that using people I know, I wouldn’t really put the “living” people as better off than the “dead” people, at least in terms of their own life satisfaction and how much I would seek their companionship—admiration is more of a tie, but I’m afraid I tend to over-admire people with masochistic tendencies and not much to show for it.
I don’t make claim being a strategic player being a desirable or happy state of life. But I can see the connotation you note. It isn’t intentional. The purpose of the model is to help with making predictions as to what happens in the world and in particular to help with decision making and evaluation in adversarial contexts.