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.
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.