Open-ended Q: Why do people subscribe to ideologies? E.g., Objectivism, communism, Mormonism, transhumanism, social justice-ism...
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@KevinSimler@TristanSevers An ideology is a working hypothesis about the future, which requires personal commitment to evaluate.
@micahtredding @TristanSevers Do you have examples of idiosyncratic ideologies ppl have adopted w/o any social/joining/signaling incentives?
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@KevinSimler@TristanSevers Most of my mental content. :) It seems to be a popular concept in scifi, sorta like Dune, Ender's Game, Memento. -
@KevinSimler@TristanSevers Also, there's the questionable case of this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-transhumanist-philosopher/201409/the-three-laws-transhumanism-and-artificial-intelligence … - which seems like negative incentives. - 1 more reply
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