Idk, I don’t need any special cynicism to accept the fact that people are wildly different in any given skill (science, empathy, strategic thinking, etc). It’s just normal. And in any skill there’s also tons of people above me, so there’s no point looking down too much.
There are a bunch of cases where you don’t need any kind of cynicism. I didn’t try to say anything about the special category of truths for which you do need some special mindset, but I think there is such a category. I think it is hard to write about what the category is, due to the incentive structure, but Nate and Ziz both do a decent job of gesturing toward it.
Idk, I don’t need any special cynicism to accept the fact that people are wildly different in any given skill (science, empathy, strategic thinking, etc). It’s just normal. And in any skill there’s also tons of people above me, so there’s no point looking down too much.
There are a bunch of cases where you don’t need any kind of cynicism. I didn’t try to say anything about the special category of truths for which you do need some special mindset, but I think there is such a category. I think it is hard to write about what the category is, due to the incentive structure, but Nate and Ziz both do a decent job of gesturing toward it.