@VesselOfSpirit I will admit to liking the demon-haunted-world metaphor, but I agree that moral indoctrination can pump against incentives
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@admittedlyhuman people sometimes don't smash each other's windows even when it would be fun and they wouldn't get caught1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman if you want to call such people "indoctrinated not to follow incentives", fine, whatever, but there are connotations here2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit there are other ways to view it, like, they're following evolutionary meta-incentives to not fuck with others too much1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit or that they lack the ability to flawlessly tell what they could get away with and are being cautious.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@VesselOfSpirit I think this is how EY views ethics, or at least that's what I took away from his articles1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman suppose you have a machine that harnesses chimpanzees trying to bash each other's brains in to generate power1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman but suppose the machine isn't strong enough and it can't contain the chimpanzees and they bash each other's brains in1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman all i'm saying is, let's not pretend that "the machine is broken" is the complete cause of the problem1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman and let's not pretend that "chimpanzees are aggressive" isn't also part of the problem2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@admittedlyhuman particularly if it's a chimpanzee bashing a chimpanzee's brain in that's making the argument
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