@sarahdoingthing see, this is why I think there's some LW-er left in you. You just conflated 4 distinct notions of 'value' above.
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@sarahdoingthing Something can have negative utility, negative aesthetics, positive ideology, positive Carse for example1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing I suspect "truth value" in strongest case has a, b, c going together, but d doesn't track. It is pre-epistemological1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing I'd define ritual, in your sense of the word, as an anti-nausea adaptation. To prevent LOOKING at reality too closely1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@jamesmcn@sarahdoingthing previously I had causality wrong: I thought ritual creates safety. Now I think safety creates ritual.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@jamesmcn @sarahdoingthing everything is chicken-egg once you get to strange attractor.Causality is only a non-trivial question in bootstrap
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