Suppressing bad instincts. Seems to make sense to me and describe a real thing that’s often a big deal in culture and civilization. All it needs to be coherent is that people can have both values and instincts, that the values aren’t necessarily that which is gained by acting on instincts, and that people have some capability to reflect on both and not always follow their instincts.
For the software analogy, imagine an optimization algorithm that has built-in heuristics, runtime generated heuristics, optimization goals, and an ability to recognize that a built-in heuristic will work poorly to reach the optimization goal in some domain and a different runtime generated heuristic will work better.
Suppressing bad instincts. Seems to make sense to me and describe a real thing that’s often a big deal in culture and civilization. All it needs to be coherent is that people can have both values and instincts, that the values aren’t necessarily that which is gained by acting on instincts, and that people have some capability to reflect on both and not always follow their instincts.
For the software analogy, imagine an optimization algorithm that has built-in heuristics, runtime generated heuristics, optimization goals, and an ability to recognize that a built-in heuristic will work poorly to reach the optimization goal in some domain and a different runtime generated heuristic will work better.