I’m uncertain as to how to translate your cipher; any help would be appreciated.
Skeeve
This is incredibly late, because I have technical issues with forums I’m not familiar with, but thank you for the information all the same.
A quick search or two hasn’t provided me with a definition of ‘alieve’, but if multiple people are using it it’s probably safe to assume that the word’s not a typo. How does it differ from ‘believe’, which is what I expected to see in that part of the sentence?
That is a useful word. Thanks for the heads up!
I don’t know, Hufflepuff seems pretty awesome to me; they’re the people most likely to Get Shit Done.
Men are the majority at the high end of the IQ / social success spectrum, and also the low end.
I’d be interested in reading citations on this, if you have any handy.
Thanks, that seems like a good place to start looking.
Regarding points 1) and 2) of the original article, I’m wondering how one would measure the ‘perfectly-rational amount of disagreement’. Would you even have to in order to consider how likely those possibilities are?
Not so much that I question the claims, more that I’d like to know more in-depth about the subject.
Awesome, thanks. I’ve got a lot of reading to do.
I’d be interested in reading an example post like this, especially if it included a section on how best to determine relevant search keywords for a topic you’re not particularly familiar with. This is something I find I have a fair amount of trouble with.
Every little bit helps, thanks.
Or do both!
And thus, Aliza_Ludshowski was born.
My own anti-procrastination technique is to tell my wife that I’m going to be working on X project, and that I’ll talk to her about what I’ve been doing when I’m done. After that, I find that all it takes to put myself back on task is a gentle reminder to myself that my options are:
Get some work done
Admit that I didn’t actually get much done
Lie about my progress
My natural aversion to options two and three is usually enough to get me back on task.
I find myself thinking mostly around the same lines as you, and so far the best I’ve been able to come up with is “I’m willing to accept a certain amount of immorality when it comes to the welfare of my wife and child”.
I’m not really comfortable with the implications of that, or that I’m not completely confident it’s not still a rationalization.
What I mean by ‘immorality’ is that I, on reflection, believe I am willing to break rules that I wouldn’t otherwise if it would benefit my family. Going back to the original switch problem, if it was ten people tied to the siding, and my wife and child tied to the main track, I’d flip the switch and send the train onto the siding.
I don’t know if that’s morally defensible, but it’s still what I’d do.
I don’t think I was having any trouble distinguishing between “would”, “should”, and “prefer”. Your analysis of my statement is spot on—it’s exactly what I was intending to say.
If morality is (rather simplistically) defined as what we “should” do, I ought to be concerned when what I would do and what I should do doesn’t line up, if I want to be a moral person.
1) I find that interacting with other people face-to-face is mentally exhausting for me. A few hours or so of prolonged exposure is not so bad, but more than that and I have to exert noticeable effort to not be snappish and crabby with people.
2) I suffer from an unreasonable need to sit with my back to a wall, or some other solid structure, even within my own home.
Is there an amount of human suffering of strangers to avoid which you’d consent to have your wife and child tortured to death?
Initially, my first instinct was to try and find the biggest font I could to say ‘no’. After actually stopping to think about it for a few minutes… I don’t know. It would probably have to be enough suffering to the point where it would destabilize society, but I haven’t come to any conclusions. Yet.
If the implications make you uncomfortable (maybe they aren’t in accordance with facets of your self-image), well, there’s not yet been a human with non-contradictory values so you’re in good company.
Heh, well, I suppose you’ve got a point there, but I’d still like my self-image to be accurate. Though I suppose around here that kind of goes without saying.
I’m not sure what it is about a survey that gets me to stop lurking at a community and actually create an account, but there you have it. Maybe it’s just the chance to tell my ‘story’ anonymously.