I haven’t read the article by gwern that Qiaochu linked, so I didn’t know that it referred specifically to ancestor worship rather than the more general (believed) evaporation of respect for ancestors’ desires as a terminal value.
I haven’t read the article by gwern that Qiaochu linked, so I didn’t know that it referred specifically to ancestor worship rather than the more general (believed) evaporation of respect for ancestors’ desires as a terminal value.