Old saying: “He who would sacrifice essential liberty to achieve security deserves neither and will lose both.”
I think something like this is typically true with rationality and effective altruism:
“They who imbibe falsehoods in order to win, eventually lose.”
It isn’t always true, of course. You give some counterexamples above. But it’s true often enough, I think, to be worth making into a litany.
I think this is obvious, but we shouldn’t be afraid to examen when and why our rules fail.
Old saying: “He who would sacrifice essential liberty to achieve security deserves neither and will lose both.”
I think something like this is typically true with rationality and effective altruism:
“They who imbibe falsehoods in order to win, eventually lose.”
It isn’t always true, of course. You give some counterexamples above. But it’s true often enough, I think, to be worth making into a litany.
I think this is obvious, but we shouldn’t be afraid to examen when and why our rules fail.