I would think existing irrationality’s superiority to rational hacks would be covered by Algernon’s Law.
It occurs to me that I have internalized the value of a group that I identify with, the value of truth from my association with the physicists and engineers guild. Interestingly, I accept this value uncritically, it is at this point in my life, an axiom.
I probably suffer as much as anybody from making myself more rational in pursuit of this value I accept uncritically. I am prone to depression, akrasia, and wonder constantly at why I should accept any of my values seriously since I knoew the truth is they are imposed on me by evolution, they are not really “mine.” All except the value of the truth, which I seem to accept uncritically.
Would I be better off if I accepted a value that was more in line with human nature uncritically? The value of thinking I was sexy (and therefore working on being sexier), or the value of controlling people around me? You know, I probably would.
But that would go against my most deeply (and uncritically) held value of truth, so I am very unlikely to move in that direction. Hmmm.
I would think existing irrationality’s superiority to rational hacks would be covered by Algernon’s Law.
It occurs to me that I have internalized the value of a group that I identify with, the value of truth from my association with the physicists and engineers guild. Interestingly, I accept this value uncritically, it is at this point in my life, an axiom.
I probably suffer as much as anybody from making myself more rational in pursuit of this value I accept uncritically. I am prone to depression, akrasia, and wonder constantly at why I should accept any of my values seriously since I knoew the truth is they are imposed on me by evolution, they are not really “mine.” All except the value of the truth, which I seem to accept uncritically.
Would I be better off if I accepted a value that was more in line with human nature uncritically? The value of thinking I was sexy (and therefore working on being sexier), or the value of controlling people around me? You know, I probably would.
But that would go against my most deeply (and uncritically) held value of truth, so I am very unlikely to move in that direction. Hmmm.