This turned out to be a great tweet for smoking out a particular kind of thinker
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1120891012002377730 …
-
-
Well, for my personally held values, I think of them like a cache for rationalism. Values allow you to stay in system 1, while thinking something through on a case-by-case basis forces you to expend the labor of switching to system 2. Both are useful

-
"Does this situation pattern-match to any of my values" vs. "there is no good and evil, only thinking makes it so, let me approach this from first principles"
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I feel like an AI might one day be able to recreate your brain using this tweet
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.