Some commenters on the recent post accused me of misunderstanding theNietzschean objection to altruism.We hate altruism, they said, not because we’re “bad and cruel”,but because we instead support vitalism. Vitalism is amoral system that maximizes life, glory and strength, instead ofmaximizing happiness. Altruism is bad because it throws resourcesinto helping sick (maybe even dysgenic) people, thus sapping ourlife, glory, and strength.In a blog post (linked in the original post, discussed atlength in the comments), Walt Bismarck compares the ultimate fateof altruism to WALL-E: a world where morbidly obese humans are keptin a hedonistic haze by robot servitors (although the more typicalexample I hear is tiling the universe with rats on heroin, whichmaximizes a certain definition of pleasure). In contrast, vitalismimagines a universe alive with dynamism, heroism, and greataccomplishments.My response: in most normal cases, altruism and vitalism suggestthe same solutions.https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/altruism-and-vitalism-as-fellow-travelers