It’s cool to put this to paper. I tried writing down my most fundamental principles and noticed I thought they were tautological and also realized many people disagree with them. Like “If you believe something is right you believe others are wrong.” Many, many people have a belief “everyone’s entitled to their own opinion” that overrules this one.
Or “if something is wrong you shouldn’t do it.” Sounds… tautological. But again, many people don’t think that’s really true when it comes to abstractly reasoned “effective altruism” type stuff. It’s just an ocean of incomprehensible rightness and wrongness, better to focus on yourself and your loved ones.
“Corruption is bad.” Nick Rafter recently had an article showing how your prior should really just be that elites manage corruption and normal people really don’t care, they just want results.
“Belief is both rational and emotional/psychological/biological”… yep, that angers people on both sides.
It’s cool to put this to paper. I tried writing down my most fundamental principles and noticed I thought they were tautological and also realized many people disagree with them. Like “If you believe something is right you believe others are wrong.” Many, many people have a belief “everyone’s entitled to their own opinion” that overrules this one.
Or “if something is wrong you shouldn’t do it.” Sounds… tautological. But again, many people don’t think that’s really true when it comes to abstractly reasoned “effective altruism” type stuff. It’s just an ocean of incomprehensible rightness and wrongness, better to focus on yourself and your loved ones.
“Corruption is bad.” Nick Rafter recently had an article showing how your prior should really just be that elites manage corruption and normal people really don’t care, they just want results.
“Belief is both rational and emotional/psychological/biological”… yep, that angers people on both sides.