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new thread on pitfalls in quests for meaning and value https://t.co/ssOzoUu3KH
it's very bottom up i think it's a bad move to start exploring your values top down until you've got a very solid core it's easy for me to realize that James Acaster continuing to be funny matters it's nigh impossible for me to abstractly justify that ThInGs In GeNeRaL matter
the eternal struggle: you don't want to have to make your values legible, cuz then clever arguers can convince you nothing is real you want people to make their values legible so you can coordinate on people who wanna fuck shit up
okay, rebooting if you're like me, you might have begun "what matters?" with a rationalist/normie-reasonableness this tool is not powerful enough for the job, and you will feel WEIRD/BAD/SINFUL thinking of trying to use anything else https://t.co/qOpYFpSPcs
reasonableness is a coordination tool because you and squad have mainly used it to coordinate against baddies, u learn them as a standard for thinking when you hit the limits of this system, you will feel like you are doing a BAD THING https://t.co/fAqVP65PL7
more on what "these tools aren't powerful enough" is https://t.co/DYvZOpfh2f