I am accusing the first half of your post of being straight-up bad and agreeing with parts of the second half. To me, it reads like you threw up whatever objections came to hand, making it seem like first you decided to defend your current way of making decisions, and only second did you start listing arguments.
But you did claim to have your own preferences in the second half. My nitpick would be that you pit this against altruism—but instead you should be following something like Egan’s law (“It all adds up to normality”). There’s stuff we call altruistic in the real world, and also in the real world people have their own preferences. Egan’s law says that you should not take this to mean that the stuff we call altruistic is a lie and the world is actually strange. Instead, the stuff we call altruistic is an expression and natural consequence of peoples’ own values.
I am accusing the first half of your post of being straight-up bad and agreeing with parts of the second half. To me, it reads like you threw up whatever objections came to hand, making it seem like first you decided to defend your current way of making decisions, and only second did you start listing arguments.
But you did claim to have your own preferences in the second half. My nitpick would be that you pit this against altruism—but instead you should be following something like Egan’s law (“It all adds up to normality”). There’s stuff we call altruistic in the real world, and also in the real world people have their own preferences. Egan’s law says that you should not take this to mean that the stuff we call altruistic is a lie and the world is actually strange. Instead, the stuff we call altruistic is an expression and natural consequence of peoples’ own values.