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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good governance ought to be incentives aligned in support of true and useful beliefs
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> true and useful my guess is you hold core values of empiricism and efficiency
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empiricism is a method, not a value. efficiency is an outcome, not a value. my core values are for truth and utility (contextually limited)
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Empiricism is a system for truth-generation requiring belief, a value of "truth" doesn't have meaning without a truth-generation system attached: this is the end-result of postmodern work. Efficiency is a property of a system & can be optimized for. What even is utility anyway?
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contextually limited utility means that you have solved relevant problems for people you care about (yourself, principally, perhaps others) with the available resources. empiricism is a method that utilizes verification of observable experience to confirm or falsify beliefs.
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when I say my core value is for truth I mean I shape my behavior to incorporate methods that can eliminate delusive beliefs and confirm true beliefs.
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What if some "delusive beliefs" are good?
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define good? see, this rhetorical strategy is easy to do.
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