Do you think that in the long run, the best political order and the best moral values will prevail, or is it necessary to implement normative stopgaps against the dangers of unconstrained social and memetic evolution?
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Replying to @Plinz
That's a false dichotomy. Memetic evolution is culture, as are political institutions that regulate culture.
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Replying to @DoqxaScott @Plinz
Agreed, I was just about to say the same: that any ‘insightful’ (obvi subjective) normative gaps/dead ends/repression of a particular tree of growing memetic evolution is indeed a part of the very process of culture/memetic evolution itself.
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Replying to @HunterBergsma @DoqxaScott
I thought so as well, but if it was true then everyone should subscribe to some variant of Social Darwinism as their meta theory once they understand all options. Instead, most activism is deontological or utopian.
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Replying to @Plinz @DoqxaScott
Deontology is dumb: it prioritizes adherence to rules, blinding people to possible future situations, including the malleability of the rule structure itself. Utopian thinking is dumb: it assumes a perfect end-state without recognizing infinite/infinitesimal fallibilism.
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So then that form of activism, as you describe it, imo, is dumb and short-sighted. Does that leave Social Darwinism as the remaining option?
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If we can anticipate the results of selection, perhaps we can replace mutation with construction, and bypass a lot of suffering
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Replying to @Plinz @HunterBergsma
We anticipate the results of our theories. These do not arise by mere mutation. They are creatively constructed. And we do bypass a lot of suffering.
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