From: Dan Fabulich (dfabulich@warpmail.net)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 20:27:02 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
> You might tell your girlfriend that she is average among the girlfriends
> you have had, and that you think you are likely to stay with her for the
> average time. You might admit you are an average lover and driver, that
> the products you sell are average, and that your in-group is no more
> morally justified than any other group. You might rarely disagree, and
> accept that others are right as often as you. You might admit that you
> care almost nothing about poor people in Africa.
I'd like to call attention to the fact that this is exactly the sort of
thing that a person "acting as if" the shared social model were true would
*not* do. The obvious disaster cases can be safely avoided 99% of the
time just by being aware of the flaws in our standard intuitions, but
still managing to be polite regardless.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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