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Re:The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics by thfuran on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:26AM (#19144185)
>“Altruism” can be defined as the part of your utility that increases because someone else’s utility increases. If you get no personal satisfaction out of something intrinsically but get satisfaction because someone else is happier, that is 100% altruistic.

Wouldn't altruism be getting no satisfaction from increasing someone else's utility but doing it anyways?

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Re:The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics by ml_basics on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:32AM (#19144921)
> Wouldn't altruism be getting no satisfaction from increasing someone else's utility but doing it anyways?

head explodes

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Re:The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics by taneq on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:39PM (#19148861)
Any sufficiently advanced self-interest is indistinguishable from altruism.
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Re:The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics by AstralStorm on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:38PM (#19155447)
Sufficiently high order, not advanced.

Family, tribe, nation, race, world, humanity, sentience.

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