Agreed Nominull, spectacularly useful. Definitely the sort of heuristic one would sensibly like to promote.
Rolf: It seems to me that you are trying to assert that it is normative for agents to behave in a certain manner because the agents you are addressing are presumably non-normative. The trouble is, using that strategy you guarantee no normative agents. The non-normative agents are not corrected by adopting your strategy, as it only mitigates their irrationalities, while any normative agents are adopting an inappropriate strategy. You can never choose soundly by assuming the processes generating your choices not to be sound. Looks to me like we need a more coherent concept of normativity, preferably one without supernatural agents. With flawed agents, all we can rigorously say is that they do what they do. What room for “should” once you have assumed them flawed and what room even for “could” once you have decided to treat them as causal systems.
Agreed Nominull, spectacularly useful. Definitely the sort of heuristic one would sensibly like to promote.
Rolf: It seems to me that you are trying to assert that it is normative for agents to behave in a certain manner because the agents you are addressing are presumably non-normative. The trouble is, using that strategy you guarantee no normative agents. The non-normative agents are not corrected by adopting your strategy, as it only mitigates their irrationalities, while any normative agents are adopting an inappropriate strategy. You can never choose soundly by assuming the processes generating your choices not to be sound. Looks to me like we need a more coherent concept of normativity, preferably one without supernatural agents. With flawed agents, all we can rigorously say is that they do what they do. What room for “should” once you have assumed them flawed and what room even for “could” once you have decided to treat them as causal systems.