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Is Impulsiveness a Virtue?
I think curiosity is informational impulsiveness. And we should start see curiosity as being exactly as good as we see other forms of impulsiveness, namely, on the whole. I'm associated indirectly with a large community called effective altruism. Their criticism of usual charity is that it's too impulsive. They're right in the sense that most le don't think very carefully about their charity or help and they do often respond directly to sort of visual clues in front of them. So your impulsiveness about helping reassures me that if i were in need, you would help me. Somebody who's very calculating about who they want seems a little too suspiciously calculating. We celebrate impulsiveness there too