especially if they would feel dismay if someone accused them of racism.
I think this is the root of your problem. You didn’t make the above cognitive changes because they were rational, you made them because you didn’t want to be accused of “racism”, i.e., because you wanted to fit in. While this is itself a perfectly understandable and reasonable human motive, it causes problems if one wants to discover what is true.
You didn’t make the above cognitive changes because they were rational, you made them because you didn’t want to be accused of “racism”, i.e., because you wanted to fit in.
This seems like an anti-updating sort of argument. It seems analogous to telling someone who has decided to be a nicer person that —
“You didn’t make the above cognitive changes because they achieved the good; you made them because you didn’t want to be accused of ‘being a jerk’, i.e., because you wanted to fit in.”
Quite. It’s perfectly possible for rationality and some other goal to coincide. And asserting that updates don’t count unless they are motivated by a pure desire for raitonality for its own sake is setting the bar rather high.
I think this is the root of your problem. You didn’t make the above cognitive changes because they were rational, you made them because you didn’t want to be accused of “racism”, i.e., because you wanted to fit in. While this is itself a perfectly understandable and reasonable human motive, it causes problems if one wants to discover what is true.
This seems like an anti-updating sort of argument. It seems analogous to telling someone who has decided to be a nicer person that —
“You didn’t make the above cognitive changes because they achieved the good; you made them because you didn’t want to be accused of ‘being a jerk’, i.e., because you wanted to fit in.”
Quite. It’s perfectly possible for rationality and some other goal to coincide. And asserting that updates don’t count unless they are motivated by a pure desire for raitonality for its own sake is setting the bar rather high.
Who is that comment addressed to?