People who wring their hands about whether or not they can strictly reason their way to something being right or wrong tend to have the weakest moral judgment. You would think the parable of Solomon and the two mothers would have sunk in by now
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doesn't that parable appear in some kind of volume of barbaric superstition? clearly that sort of thing is far too outmoded for us smart rational people to need to pay attention to
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...I can’t tell whether “normative rationalists” is meant to be the LessWrong cluster or something else. If it’s LW, then do you know that we already know this? It’s called the “orthogonality thesis”, which says that goals are independent of rationality.
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I guess we might explicitly belief in Orthogonality while implicitly assuming its falsehood? In that case, your criticism would be valid.
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It is the purest form of paradigm deconstruction one can offer.
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True of rationalism descriptively but not prescriptively. Indeed palming a card like that is, in fact, irrational, but it's not necessary. Rationally once starts with subjective pre or non rational value, as per Hume.
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