#rationality #cooperation # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Egoism #to-digest For the [[Selfish gene]], we're merely survival machines manipulated to compete with other genes. Though, [[Tit for tat]] shows that egoism isn't necessarily an optimal strategy in the macroscopic world. [[Effective Altruism]] might be? But the individual have still to be first egoist to be good enough for others. >In Buddha’s teaching egoism is a duty. >~[[Nietzsche]] Egoism at the individual level is better off for the society. >That which is not good for the swarm, is not good for the bee >~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] >My responsibility is toward my heart, not toward anybody else in the world. So is your responsibility only toward your own being. Don’t go against it, because going against it is committing suicide, is destroying yourself. >~ [[Osho]]