The last psychiatrist talked about narcissism alot and his advice is that if you are a narcissist, the best thing you can do is to 'fake' being a good person. Just do and say the things you think a genuinely caring and sympathetic person would do and say. It won't change you deep down, but it will spare the people in the world around you.

"...a 2016 internal memo written by Facebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, leaked in 2018, which stated that the company's growth was paramount and that negative consequences, such as harm from bullying or terrorism, were acceptable collateral damage".

Don't submit stuff from this guy, he is an atrocious human being.

I'd say the modern American self is best defined by what you believe how other's perceive you and whether you are popular or not.

There's something to be said for honesty. There's a heart in there, to express, theoretically. Advantages might be enjoyed thereby.

Interesting view from the CTO of Meta.

What does that make him?

Agency is key to (personal, not economic) growth

Well that's a completely artificial either-or straw man.

It is possible to make progress while trying to do good. Lots of people do that.

>You are how you act

"Four Silicon Valley executives have been recruited into a specialist tech-focused unit of the US Army Reserves in a bid to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and make the armed forces “more lethal”."

" Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, the CTO of Meta – will “work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems”." [0]

0, https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626673/Silicon-Valley...

He is actively making the world worst for all of us, so sorry not sorry for not having any sympathy at all.

If ever there was a group that could benefit from this advice, it is the famously spectrum-associated programmers.