6. Hume is right. Good things, like reason, come from co-opting and reshaping base motives. Reason's enslaved to the impulse that drives it.
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Getting better at thinking helps by itself, but this depends on a motivational superstructure that is too much taken for granted.
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Do you have specific ideas what a prorationality motivation structure would look like, or just think we should be thinking about it more?
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Anywhere I can go to learn about them?
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I'll try to write something up soon.
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...as if the whole project of constructing a community with relevant norms wasn't one big attempt at that.
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Yes. I totally agree with this. The question is whether the community is really promoting the relevant norms.
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that's not a contradiction if there are missable but still usefully true thoughts about the efficacy of exploring ways to change motives
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