On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> You have a point here. However, I still like to think there is
> a valid distinction, if one thinks through the enlightened self
> interest: one would like to foment a community where enhancements to
> a package are welcome, even if the developer does not think it is
> important; since then things important to me, but not to the
> developer, would tend to get changed, improving my utility. About
> the best way to incubate such an attitude is to adopt it, since do as
> I do gathers more momentum than do as I say.
This is a bit wordy. "Enlightened self-interest" can be effectively
summed up as "Make the world suck a bit less, because I've got to live
in it".
On the surface it's comparable to "altruism". When you get down to
specifics, it isn't; for example, "What do I do when a total moron
tries to talk to me?". ("Attempt to ensure he never tries again")
[Of course, you then have the challenge that the value functions of
different people tend to be radically unlike each other]
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