I broadly agree with this. I want to note a danger that’s always present in this sort of discussion of “things at the horizon of experience”, or water that’s being swum in. It risks being incorporated as statements in an ideology, rather than being enacted. Of course, enacting something might be bad, but if you incorporate “I want to X” into your belief system and also don’t do X / don’t want to do X, then something is going wrong. Incorporating “X is good” into your belief system without tracking how much that belief has or hasn’t propagated / equilibrated with the rest of you, could lead to a sort of intensification of the simulacrum, papering over the cracks, raising the difference between authenticity and falsification to a pitch too high to hear, making it harder to untangle by reasoning.
I am not really sure which part of the post you think might have this effect. To some extent I am responding to people having incorporated “FAI” into a non-enacted ideology (due to failing to symbol ground “FAI”) and trying to correct this problem.
I did summarize part of the post as “if you don’t want it, it’s not FAI”; but mostly that seems like it would bring people out of confused ideological relationships to “FAI” where they haven’t adequately distinguished it from UFAI and are experiencing according motivational issues.
I am not really sure which part of the post you think might have this effect.
None. Oops, maybe there was some unintended implicature in the first two sentences (implying the paragraph is the exception the broad agreement; not what I’m saying). My comment wasn’t really addressed at you, more to myself, the crowd, whoever.
I broadly agree with this. I want to note a danger that’s always present in this sort of discussion of “things at the horizon of experience”, or water that’s being swum in. It risks being incorporated as statements in an ideology, rather than being enacted. Of course, enacting something might be bad, but if you incorporate “I want to X” into your belief system and also don’t do X / don’t want to do X, then something is going wrong. Incorporating “X is good” into your belief system without tracking how much that belief has or hasn’t propagated / equilibrated with the rest of you, could lead to a sort of intensification of the simulacrum, papering over the cracks, raising the difference between authenticity and falsification to a pitch too high to hear, making it harder to untangle by reasoning.
I am not really sure which part of the post you think might have this effect. To some extent I am responding to people having incorporated “FAI” into a non-enacted ideology (due to failing to symbol ground “FAI”) and trying to correct this problem.
I did summarize part of the post as “if you don’t want it, it’s not FAI”; but mostly that seems like it would bring people out of confused ideological relationships to “FAI” where they haven’t adequately distinguished it from UFAI and are experiencing according motivational issues.
None. Oops, maybe there was some unintended implicature in the first two sentences (implying the paragraph is the exception the broad agreement; not what I’m saying). My comment wasn’t really addressed at you, more to myself, the crowd, whoever.