I would really like to know, if you would not mind explaining, how are we all egotists. I believe myself that HN tends to attract better-than-average, educated, ambitious people. Egotism goes a bit with that. But to all being like that.
and also:
"Various forms of "empirical egoism" can be consistent with egotism, as long as the value of one's own self-benefit is entirely individual."
It just comes out in the difficult situations like doing a startup (in a war, etc).
That particular thread shows how people fight to remain egotists. Seems like me alone do not care about favorable view of myself (think karma)