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Warren Buffett's son described him thus: He likes to be right. It's just that when he's right, he makes a lot of money. In support of the article, a community
by 10ren 16y ago
Warren Buffett's son described him thus: He likes to be right. It's just that when he's right, he makes a lot of money.
In support of the article, a community is better off if people have (or develop) different motivations, in accordance with division of labour. Dawkins would probably damn any genetic basis of this as group selection, but it does make everyone better off.
I agree that more research is required; but pop-psychology will always prefer simple explanations (intrinsic good! extrinsic bad!). I do.
Anyone know what his 16 categories are? I think the researcher's title is link-bait. I bet some of them are (arguably) intrinsic.
- bootload 16y ago"... Anyone know what his 16 categories are? ..." Try reading through, "Who am I?: the 16 basic desires that motivate our behavior and define our personalities" ~ http://books.google.com/books?id=EbOjA5oAsEUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Steven+Reiss&source=bl&ots=ANJBlT4MsO&sig=nmfTY4bhSUqBW_ne3E272MtNk9w&hl=en&ei=BOURTJLaPMy5cY6FpNsH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=EbOjA5oAsEUC&printsec=f...
- drunkpotato 16y agoDawkins would probably damn any genetic basis of this as group selection, but it does make everyone better off. You contradicted yourself. Dawkins, at least in "The Selfish Gene", is much more subtle than most people give him credit for (subtlety makes for terrible sound-bites, like "Dawkins would damn..."). If an individual is part of a community in which there is a diversity of genes and a division of labor so that every individual in that community is more likely to reproduce their genes than individuals not in that community, then for each individual their bundle of genes will thrive. That is straight-up Dawkins. There is nothing to damn.
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