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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Replying to @simpolism @PereGrimmer
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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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
What if some "delusive beliefs" are good?
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Replying to @simpolism @PereGrimmer
define good? see, this rhetorical strategy is easy to do.
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
One possible reading: what if holding delusive beliefs allows you to better satisfy your core values as expressed in action?
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Replying to @simpolism @PereGrimmer
is satisfaction of your core values what we care about? I mentioned context-limited utility as a value because it focuses on solving real problems instead of just attaining a kind of spiritual satisfaction (whatever that might mean).
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Replying to @danlistensto @PereGrimmer
Yes, I was defining "good" as "whatever satisfies one's core values." However, what if we only solve real problems for the spiritual satisfaction (or escape from boredom, I guess), and it's simply *extra* spiritually satisfying if the problems are real?
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Replying to @simpolism @PereGrimmer
when I'm hungry my problem is I need to eat nourishing food. if I don't eat nourishing food I will become sick and eventually die. it doesn't matter how spiritually satisfying I find eating to be. case in point: anorexics are spiritually repulsed by eating but they still have to.
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
This presumes anorexics value living over not eating. Not all have!
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well there's the rub. if it's a method of suicide it seems to be one of the most exotic and excruciating ones you could come up with. there is such a thing as a recovered anorexic. I don't understand it on a deep level though.
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