Ah, social science, the honorable field of research into the differences between what is and what should be
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The menu of things that should be must logically be restrained to the things that could be. The better we understand why things are as they are, the smaller the set of alternatives that could be, until only a single trajectory is left, in which we can make only our own decisions.
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I assure you that future will just happen by itself, you don't need to do anything to bring it on.
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Everyone is acting on what they believe to be their incentives. You can only influence the behavior of others by changing those incentives, or by changing their beliefs. You surely figured that out, but I don't understand why you actively incentivize so many people to hate you
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To me, it matters if my ideas are true or useful, but the universe is just a computer, and I am a sophisticated patch of yeast that emerged in it, with misguided ideas of what matters to me. Of course nothing objectively matters. Nihilism is the state in which you care about that
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No offense taken. And of course I am a computer within a computer. I don't know if another naturalistic philosopher can show me a way out of this (not that it's a problem for me).
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