I made a throwaway comment a few weeks ago about projecting complex moral systems onto the lower-dimensional space of politics, and now I’m obsessed with this idea.
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the gist: political ideologies are basis function expansions. the first principle component of libertarianism is consent, for example. then other concepts (basis functions) help to fill in the leftover gaps. but they get messier and harder to understand as you go.
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you can't use all infinitely many basis functions/concepts required to fully recapitulate morality, so you truncate. Use a large finite number. The problem is that ideologues truncate after only one or two basis functions. "Is it moral? Well it is consensual."
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