Jiro comments on Persistent Idealism - Less Wrong

11 Post author: jkaufman 26 August 2014 01:38AM

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Comment author: Jiro 28 August 2014 06:17:06PM 1 point [-]

Define "burnout". It sounds like this means "has a psychological aversion to continuing to give"--but if that's what it means, then someone who gives ten dollars a year and is psychologically unwilling to increase this amount could be described as already burned out at higher values, which I'm pretty sure is not your intention.

Comment author: kalium 30 August 2014 05:27:06PM -1 points [-]

I'd read it as a loss of motivation to the extent of making it hard or impossible to keep doing that demanding, high-paying job that you're doing so you can have more to give. Happens to plenty of people in demanding jobs even if they're giving nothing.