10. Aristotle says a real philosopher is inhuman.
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11. If the normal syndrome of epistemic irrationality is instrumentally rational, then you've got to choose your irrationality.
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12. The inclination to choose epistemic rationality is evidence of being bad at life.
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13. It's understandable that these people should want a community in which they can feel better and maybe even superior about this.
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14. We all need a home. If that desire for safety/acceptance/status produces more usefully true thoughts, that's awesome.
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I'm not sure if you're pointing out that being in a community that values truth promotes truth-seeking, or missing this.
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Like, you seem to say that it "produces more usefully true thoughts", but also say you "see no interest" in exploring ways to change motives
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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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A place where you will be savagely yelled at for making a misleading graph, and attractive people want to date you because (continued)
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you are so good at admitting when you are wrong is a place where those "base motives" are more likely to be working in your favor.
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There's a really boring sense in which you can never do anything for virtuous motives because of the is-ought dichotomy. But if you start...
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...with even a slight desire for virtue, there are lots of ways to magnify it effectively.
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