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How many of your high-level beliefs do you feel like you have "by accident" - like, "would be different if you'd been raised by different people", or ones you've uncritically accepted by osmosis from your culture?

None are accidental
10.5%
Only some; most aren't
44.8%
Most are; some aren't
34.9%
All are accidental
9.8%

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4:37 PM · Oct 17, 2019

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Many of mine are of the form "I only believe this due to luck in being exposed to the right environment (I might not have derived it myself), but an alternate-me would probably come to hold the same belief if they later encountered the same arguments". E.g. effective altruism

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Very good question in my case i feel it is very hard to know.

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I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but it blows my mind how each time I answer one of your polls my answer ends up being the same as most popular answer.

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chloethedev (she/her/they)

@chloethedev

Oct 17, 2019

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@Aella_Girl

My only tilt high level belief is that the main reason we are here, and have this life to live, is to LOVE. I would hope that no matter who raised me, I would eventually have come to that same conclusion. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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"accidental" can mean unintentional or by chance. all beliefs are intentional, all are defined by circumstance (chance), since intentions and choices are defined by genes and environment. this framing seems to encourage a false dichotomy between choice and chance.

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Almost impossible question to answer, since we have no idea what another set of life experiences would have led to. If I’d had access to all the information I’ve had in this life? I would guess 80-90% of my beliefs would be very similar.

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There Is only 1 answer AND Is the fisrt one... Anyone who thinks otherswise, Is living a big lie... There Is no Fate, no luck, no destiny... Only your actions and concequences counts in this dimension where we live...

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I can’t imagine coming to the conclusion that my entire existence and all of the occurrences therein are anything but “by accident” I’m assuming the “feel like” bit of the question is the road leading so many to options A, B, and C.

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"Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling."

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I think we can’t help but build from where we find ourselves in time and culture. But cultures are shaped by deeper layers. This means that cultures can converge. It follows that the cultural layer is not necessarily the layer that is doing the majority of the shaping.