Norms are beliefs without priors, and beliefs without priors are norms, which is why most rationalists are not normies.
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Replying to @mere_mortise
The point of norms is not that they are justified because they worked well for the ancestors (even though that is often literally claimed to be the case, and even materially the case), but simply that "this is the way we do it", and you are often considered wrong for asking.
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Replying to @mere_mortise
Yes, and many normies seem to think that this gives them a justification that is comparable to the justification of the truth of a mathematical statement.
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Replying to @mere_mortise
At the moment, it seems to be mostly the progressives that became hyper normative, while it is mostly conservatives that tend to make more consequentialist arguments?
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