I think of this in terms of personal vs. civilization-scale value loci distinction. Personal-scale values, applying to individual modern human minds, speaking of those minds, might hold status quo anchoring sacred and dislike presence of excessive awareness of disruptive possible changes. While civilization-scale values, even as they are facilitated by individuals, do care about accurate understanding of reality regardless of what it says.
People shouldn’t move too far towards becoming decision theoretic agents, even if they could, other than for channeling civilization. The latter is currently a necessity (that’s very dangerous to neglect), but it’s not fundamentally a necessity. What people should move towards is a more complicated question with some different answer (which does probably include more clarity in thinking than is currently the norm or physiologically possible, but still). People are vessels of value, civilization is its custodian. These different roles call for different shapes of cognition.
In this model, it’s appropriate / morally-healthy / intrinsically-valuable for people to live more fictional lives (as they prefer) while civilization as a whole is awake, and both personal-scale values and civilization-scale values agree on this point.
I think of this in terms of personal vs. civilization-scale value loci distinction. Personal-scale values, applying to individual modern human minds, speaking of those minds, might hold status quo anchoring sacred and dislike presence of excessive awareness of disruptive possible changes. While civilization-scale values, even as they are facilitated by individuals, do care about accurate understanding of reality regardless of what it says.
People shouldn’t move too far towards becoming decision theoretic agents, even if they could, other than for channeling civilization. The latter is currently a necessity (that’s very dangerous to neglect), but it’s not fundamentally a necessity. What people should move towards is a more complicated question with some different answer (which does probably include more clarity in thinking than is currently the norm or physiologically possible, but still). People are vessels of value, civilization is its custodian. These different roles call for different shapes of cognition.
In this model, it’s appropriate / morally-healthy / intrinsically-valuable for people to live more fictional lives (as they prefer) while civilization as a whole is awake, and both personal-scale values and civilization-scale values agree on this point.