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On the attractiveness of having choice taken away. (Just from my personal notes on EA. Applies to many other strong ideologies too, of course, this just happens to be on my mind right now.)
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This was my starting assumption with EA, carried over from my starting assumption about all of LW-style rationalism. It turns identification of the unique best option in all circumstances into a legibilizing fetish. Sometimes helpful, usually not.
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Imo, the philosophically sound approach is to calibrate the appropriate amount of doubt to live with given uncertainty and ambiguity in circumstances, and adopt varied decision-making styles accordingly. Otherwise you risk projecting your fear of uncertainty onto the situation.
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Curious what you mean. As a child, I lived in the Australian outback briefly, and in rural areas, and then in very, er, non-academic state schools. My sense of choice was tiny, compared to how it later expanded.
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