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Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
Cedric Chin
That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its close cousin, charity—and mutual aid. The former preserves the hierarchy between giver and receiver. The latter recognizes that everyone has things to give, and everyone has things they need. The Anarresti argue that [[real care isn’t selfless but reciprocal, not altruistic but mutual.::highlight]] *Nobody goes hungry while another eats.*
In that light, “effective” altruism’s criticism of altruism isn’t a subversion of egoism but a cementing of it.
The Other Side of Egoism
Mandy Brown
Also let that be the most important lesson to anyone who says that the AI companies, or OpenAI in particular, can be counted on to act responsibly, or to keep their promises, or that we can count on their corporate structures, or that we can rely on anything such that we don’t need laws and regulations to keep them in check.
AI #83: The Mask Comes Off
TheZvi
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