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The problem with intrinsic motivation is that people use it as an excuse to exploit other people.
by jacoblyles 14y ago
The problem with intrinsic motivation is that people use it as an excuse to exploit other people.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoThe problem with intrinsic motivation is that it often makes itself unaccountable to getting results. And I don't mean economic results, I mean results of any kind. This is actually one of the reasons I'm in CS grad-school right now rather than anything else: I could spend my life hacking away at Cool Stuff as open-source projects, joining open-source projects, coding whatever for a day job. I could. But I've already done hobby stuff in realms that intersected partially with research, and found that it's just too easy to completely bullshit myself if I don't have real research training. So I'm here getting the real research training, in hope of writing things that are less prone to self-delusion and bullshit. No word yet on my final career plans, because the grandparent was definitely right about one thing: I do my best stuff when intrinsically motivated and I find money-motivated careerism more of a burden than anything else.