I hear stuff like, "I'll never compromise on my core values." But why not? What's going to happen if you do? Is the Gaia God of Personal Spirituality going to frown on you? And what proof are inflexible "values," really, against the turbulent eddies of time and experience?
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a lot of politics is competition to change incentives in alignment with beliefs, thereby creating values.
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That's true. That's much of the point of laws and norms -- alter marginal incentives, alter marginal behavior, alter marginal values. Maybe the benefit of inflexible core values, then, is that if everyone truly had them, there'd be no benefit to politics, and it'd be abandoned.
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inflexible core values is a signal that you can be relied upon not to defect in iterated political games. it's supposed to be helpful for coalition building. the problem is usually upstream of that, i.e. delusional beliefs.
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all beliefs are incentive-aligned
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