I don’t have a set time. It will depend on how the students react to it, how many questions they ask and if they appear interested or lost.
what do you want to accomplish
I want to use the map/territory analogy to frame irrationality and show the benefits of being rational. At my college “sensitivity” is considered a much more important virtue than “honesty” and part of what I want to do here is fight against this.
For balance, consider adding a few points on when updating is instrumentally bad for you (for example, it’s no use knowing any truths about the free market economy if you happen to live in NK).
EDIT: Your quest is somewhat ironic in a college whose motto is “In Virtue Knowledge”, not the other way around.
Sure, I’m prepared to grant you that, I am not familiar with the country that well. But are you saying that there are no cases where knowing the territory can be harmful?
But are you saying that there are no cases where knowing the territory can be harmful?
You never really know the territory. You only know a map of the territory. Even if North Korea had no markets you wouldn’t suffer from that knowledge.
There a lot of knowledge that doesn’t help you directly but that’s harmful. The kind of knowledge that hurts you might hurt you not because it’s useless. It might hurt you because you become overconfident in your knowledge. It might hurt you because you focus to much attention on things you see on the map.
At my college “sensitivity” is considered a much more important virtue than “honesty” and part of what I want to do here is fight against this.
If that’s your goal how about talking about the clash between the two values more directly? Explain situations where students falsely value sensitivity over honesty.
I don’t have a set time. It will depend on how the students react to it, how many questions they ask and if they appear interested or lost.
I want to use the map/territory analogy to frame irrationality and show the benefits of being rational. At my college “sensitivity” is considered a much more important virtue than “honesty” and part of what I want to do here is fight against this.
For balance, consider adding a few points on when updating is instrumentally bad for you (for example, it’s no use knowing any truths about the free market economy if you happen to live in NK).
EDIT: Your quest is somewhat ironic in a college whose motto is “In Virtue Knowledge”, not the other way around.
North Korea has a black market that runs under some free market principles. Knowing them won’t hurt you if you live in NK.
Sure, I’m prepared to grant you that, I am not familiar with the country that well. But are you saying that there are no cases where knowing the territory can be harmful?
You never really know the territory. You only know a map of the territory. Even if North Korea had no markets you wouldn’t suffer from that knowledge.
There a lot of knowledge that doesn’t help you directly but that’s harmful. The kind of knowledge that hurts you might hurt you not because it’s useless. It might hurt you because you become overconfident in your knowledge. It might hurt you because you focus to much attention on things you see on the map.
If that’s your goal how about talking about the clash between the two values more directly? Explain situations where students falsely value sensitivity over honesty.