mimetic desire
6 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2022 by Luke Burgess · across every show →
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May 31, 2022
Burgis: Positive role modeling beats top-down reorgs for fixing misaligned behavior
“The most important thing I think we can do is rather than try to solve the problem through some kind of a top-down system or reorg or something like that, or, you know, implementing new rules and policies. Is simply finding a model and putting a positive model…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Followers change their desires whenever their mimetic model shifts interests
“When somebody has taken another person as a model, when the model changes their interest in, or desire for something, our The objects that we're interested in change along with them, because it was never the object that was the important thing in the first pla…”
May 31, 2022
Luke Burgis: Desires are driven by third-party models, not objects themselves
“Mimetic desire means that a person's choice of an object is not determined by the object itself, But is fundamentally, or at least mostly determined by a third person or a third party, which is a mediator or model of desire. So there's always sort of a hidden …”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: People omit mimetic influences from life decisions to preserve perceived rationality
“There's the hindsight bias where the stories we tell ourselves about why we made the decisions that we did very, very often. Leave out a model of desire or a model of that behavior, because I don't know, because maybe it's an affront to our independence, to ou…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Mimetic desire inevitably transforms role models into rivals
“Because the models that we choose, de facto, they just naturally lead us into some form of rivalry, if you think about it. You know, if I take another person as a model and begin to want what he wants I'm looking to him constantly as my model of desire to kind…”