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Open original source ↗@signulll You can take a short-term loss to preserve a principle that benefits your tribe over the long run.
But you can’t take a fatal loss to preserve a principle. Any tribe that did that wouldn’t stick around. And the principle would die out with it.
Example: Google once downranked Chrome in search because the
Chrome team violated their rules. So they did abide by stated principles at real short-term cost. But that’s because they didn’t want others to game their (more important) search engine.
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@balajis @signulll Any emergent moral discussion falls apart if the underlying base is "don't lose" at any cost Does the process matter more than the outcome, or not? Are some truths worth defending with death and loss, or not?
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