Any effort to find out the truth makes people worse off. Telling you why would make you a lot worse off.
People’s desires are so miscalibrated that the only way to get long-term survival for the human race is for people (including those at the top of the status ladder) to have more of a sense of duty than anyone now does.
It was surprisingly hard to come up with those. I had to get past a desire to come up with things I think are plausible which most people would disagree with.
Michael Vassar, I was considering whether breathing would count as a no propaganda pleasure that people agree on, but then I remembered how much meditation or other body work it takes to be able to manage a really deep relaxed breath.
RichardKennaway, the idea of completely unknowable god turns up now and then in religious writing, but for tolerably obvious reasons, it’s never at the center of a religion.
I think that things that seem plausible but most people would disagree with are fair game if most people would disagree strongly enough and if you present an exaggerated fersion.
All the major natural patterns (like gravity and entropy) are conscious. We just haven’t figured out how to talk with them yet.
And speaking of entropy, there are exterior forces which compel whole cultures to make bad choices. In particular, multiple choice tests select for people who can tolerate low-context thinking, and no one who is good at multiple choice tests should be allowed any important responsibility.
People’s desires are so miscalibrated that the only way to get long-term survival for the human race is for people (including those at the top of the status ladder) to have more of a sense of duty than anyone now does.
What does that have to do with being so miscalibrated? Certainly having too little sense of duty would be just as miscalibrated as having too much. And it’s not like having a better-calibrated sense of desires would change what other desires would work.
Any effort to find out the truth makes people worse off. Telling you why would make you a lot worse off.
People’s desires are so miscalibrated that the only way to get long-term survival for the human race is for people (including those at the top of the status ladder) to have more of a sense of duty than anyone now does.
It was surprisingly hard to come up with those. I had to get past a desire to come up with things I think are plausible which most people would disagree with.
Michael Vassar, I was considering whether breathing would count as a no propaganda pleasure that people agree on, but then I remembered how much meditation or other body work it takes to be able to manage a really deep relaxed breath.
RichardKennaway, the idea of completely unknowable god turns up now and then in religious writing, but for tolerably obvious reasons, it’s never at the center of a religion.
I think that things that seem plausible but most people would disagree with are fair game if most people would disagree strongly enough and if you present an exaggerated fersion.
All the major natural patterns (like gravity and entropy) are conscious. We just haven’t figured out how to talk with them yet.
And speaking of entropy, there are exterior forces which compel whole cultures to make bad choices. In particular, multiple choice tests select for people who can tolerate low-context thinking, and no one who is good at multiple choice tests should be allowed any important responsibility.
What does that have to do with being so miscalibrated? Certainly having too little sense of duty would be just as miscalibrated as having too much. And it’s not like having a better-calibrated sense of desires would change what other desires would work.