Altruism and Vitalism Aren't Fellow Travelers

By Arjun Panickssery @ 2024-08-09T02:01 (+30)

This is a linkpost to https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/altruism-and-nietzscheanism-arent

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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Alejandro Acelas @ 2024-08-09T11:15 (+7)

For those wanting a quick encapsulation of Nietzsche's morality, I recommend Arjun's other post on the topic. It's both unusually succinct and well-written.

Mjreard @ 2024-08-10T15:45 (+1)

I also got the sense that some kind of averaging consideration (or inverse prioritarianism, where the flourishing of the ~90th percentile along some dimension) was the essential thing for vitalists. Helping the weakest be stronger doesn't count when your concern is the peak strength of the strongest. 

It's very much an aesthetically grounded, rather than experientially- or scale-grounded ethics.