a lot of confusions about human nature & ethics are caused by not disambiguating sociopaths and non-sociopaths send tweet
Why ethical models should disambiguate psychopaths from everyone else
7 tweets · August 2021 · 51 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
ahh I meant "psychopaths", insofar as this table is pointing at a difference:
fwiw, unlike various other people I don't think that trying to blame or eliminate psychopaths is a desirable nor viable strategy turns into a witchhunt, which will probably end up finding other scapegoats than the ones it seeks
I don't know what trust looks like with people who don't have empathy built-in. I don't know what win-wins look like. ...but I have no reason to think they don't exist! (on the gripping hand, to be clear: I've no reason to prioritize doing trust-building with sociopaths atm)
To be clear, my original tweet is not just about philosophies, but also about implicit models that affect peoples' behavior! (there's a whole great thread here)
meanwhile, if we designed systems that worked better for psychopaths, they might actually work better for everyone psychopaths are notoriously not motivated by punishment but it's nigh-impossible to steer *anything* by punishment! yet we still use it
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