If a officer (serving as a trusted component in a coherent social machine serving an important telos) doesn’t resign when their deontics are violated, then why the fuck were they even trusted with such power in the first place? Someone has to be the grownup. You can’t have “nothing but idiots and children” if you want good things to happen, on purpose, at scale, with high efficiency. The worst possible outcome is for actively bad things to happen, on purpose, at scale, with high efficiency.
I could write a long response, about “conventional morality that runs on vibes and makes sense to consumers of governance” vs “post-conventional morality that runs on logic and is necessary for producers of governance” but the succinct response is: you left out the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the instructions, which was to resign if the early steps of Saying No To Evil don’t work.
Given the context here (you voted to 0 so far, and me prone to writing too much) I’ve DMed you with a few more words, that might be specifically helpful <3
If a officer (serving as a trusted component in a coherent social machine serving an important telos) doesn’t resign when their deontics are violated, then why the fuck were they even trusted with such power in the first place? Someone has to be the grownup. You can’t have “nothing but idiots and children” if you want good things to happen, on purpose, at scale, with high efficiency. The worst possible outcome is for actively bad things to happen, on purpose, at scale, with high efficiency.
I could write a long response, about “conventional morality that runs on vibes and makes sense to consumers of governance” vs “post-conventional morality that runs on logic and is necessary for producers of governance” but the succinct response is: you left out the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the instructions, which was to resign if the early steps of Saying No To Evil don’t work.
Given the context here (you voted to 0 so far, and me prone to writing too much) I’ve DMed you with a few more words, that might be specifically helpful <3