You can decide to question any such principles, which is how they get formulated in the first place, as designs for improved cognition devised by an evolved mind that doesn’t originally follow any particular crisp design, but can impose order on itself. The only situation where they remain stable is if the decision always comes out in their favor, which will happen if they are useful for agents pursuing your preference. When these agents become sufficiently different, they probably shouldn’t use any object level details of the design of cognition that holds for you. The design improves, so it’s not the same.
Examples of such principles are pursuit of well-calibrated empirical beliefs, of valid mathematical knowledge, of useful plans, and search for rational principles of cognition.
I don’t know how to describe the thing that remains through correct changes, which is probably what preference should be, so it’s never formal. There shouldn’t be a motivation to “be at peace” with it, since it’s exactly the thing you turn out to be at peace with, for reasons other than being at peace with it.
You can decide to question any such principles, which is how they get formulated in the first place, as designs for improved cognition devised by an evolved mind that doesn’t originally follow any particular crisp design, but can impose order on itself. The only situation where they remain stable is if the decision always comes out in their favor, which will happen if they are useful for agents pursuing your preference. When these agents become sufficiently different, they probably shouldn’t use any object level details of the design of cognition that holds for you. The design improves, so it’s not the same.
Examples of such principles are pursuit of well-calibrated empirical beliefs, of valid mathematical knowledge, of useful plans, and search for rational principles of cognition.
I don’t know how to describe the thing that remains through correct changes, which is probably what preference should be, so it’s never formal. There shouldn’t be a motivation to “be at peace” with it, since it’s exactly the thing you turn out to be at peace with, for reasons other than being at peace with it.