13/ If the human body is a sack of atoms configured via natural selection, then you might view the ethical landscape as one of liberating ones self and humanity from evolution's "teleology". Neurotransmitters might become the seat of the good.
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my best effort to solve things locally so far has been what i linked - and it's still just an MO to see systematic problems in an acceptable way. I'm not sure *how* you even go about solving them locally without addressing these. help?
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Hm. I'm not sure I entirely understand; you might be trying to solve a different set of global problems that the ones I'm thinking of. What's troubling you in particular? Maybe I can illustrate with a case study.
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to the extent I try to actually solve problems, it mostly makes me poorer and sadder and makes other people want to destroy me so
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Yeah, feels like rationalist urge is to modify everything in one’s Markov blanket (including self!), while postrats just modify children.
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Is difficulty in scaling up solutions a local or global problem? If everyone solves their local problems will all problems be solved or are some problems intrinsically global? If we can solve a problem N people have in common why can't we solve a problem N+1 people have?
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Some problems are intrinsically global for sure. Emergent properties, neighborhood effects, all of that. I can come up with or advocate for nice solutions to some of these problems (and indeed they're often widely known!) but implementation is another enchilada entirely.
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dont forget making friends
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