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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Replying to @PereGrimmer
You will be exposed as an ideologically untrustworthy person who compromises on their core values.
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Replying to @simpolism
It seems such a point of pride to have strong fixed beliefs unalterable by future circumstance. I take the point that there's a signaling and coalition building effect, but it seems irrational to me as an egotist. Then again, talk is cheap; saying ain't doing.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
It appears you are refusing to compromise on your core value of having no core values.
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Replying to @simpolism
1/I'm open to compromise on it. But that reminds me of another leg of this rant: what makes values 'core'? It doesn't seem to be that they are the values which are tested most and remain stable -- rather, it often seems that the core values are tested least, or just never tested.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @simpolism
2/So I'm inclined to suspect "core values" are just the values that happen not to have been tested longest in the person's memory. Once the person has incentive to betray the value, they probably will, and then they'll have new core values.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @simpolism
values are incentive-aligned beliefs.
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a lot of politics is competition to change incentives in alignment with beliefs, thereby creating values.
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
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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