Moral compasses are like magnetic one, they point to 2 poles, and it's a matter of convention which end you mark as the pointer and call "north." For moral compasses, the two poles are "maximal certainty" and "maximal uncertainty." Most people mark the former as "true north."
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I'm with the minority that marks the other end as "true north." The direction of maximal uncertainty. Orient around the doubt gradient rather than the belief gradient. It makes for weirdly awkward navigation socially, but much more effective navigation in other ways.
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Dag Hammarskjold was a great example of being both in the same person at the same time. He projected Maximal certainty publicly about his role as an international civil servant but privately, in his diaries, wrote at length & evocatively about self-doubts that wracked him.
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I prefer sticking a needle to the center of the needle at a 90° angle, and calling that true north, because otherwise you can't see the jitter of the magnetic field very well.
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Yes.. we must wander away from the street lamp drunks and into the dark.
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If you can control things, it doesn't matter.
If it matters, you can't control things.
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I live a vague superposition of this certainty/uncertainty pole:
"I don't know where I'm going. But I'm going RIGHT there."





