How are your hows and whys entangled? Mine are probably "overly elaborate pursuit of fundamentally trivial things"https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1012814508354560000 …
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Replying to @vgr
Been mulling over your 1st law, think I'm almost there but not quite.. Did you mean in choosing the 'best' way to do something for the 'right' reason, you lose sight of yourself? Replaces your eigenyou with robotic ideal-you, leading to hedonism+prowess compass that points to
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Replying to @HuanWin
More like means-ends optimization leads to infinite regress on value just like “if god created humans who created god” type arguments
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Replying to @vgr
One more attempt at understanding before I sleep on it: "How can I best do something and how to tell if that something is best to do?" leads to "What even is fundamentally valuable?" to "I can't tell" leads to nihilism? Optimizing requires metrics but those metrics are recursive
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