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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
You've Got More Food Than You Need
In human beings, it isn't very common for me to say, look, you did me a favour yesterday, so i'm going to do you the same favour to day. An reciprocity requires the ability to view transactions across time. As soon as a creature becomes aware of the future, like we have, we can even engage in reciprocal behavior with our future selves. And that s our self interest a much more complex phenomenon. So i might define self interest as the impulsive pursuit of pleasure.
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