I think there was a miscommunication; I don’t mean to say that you are inaccurately describing some tribal lines that were going on in some other social scene, I mean that I have little faith that these tribal lines will be a remotely accurate guide to good ideas. Like national politics in the US which has two parties, I think it is wrong to think that one party has all the questions exactly right and the other party has all the questions exactly wrong, there are too many other social and political forces on where tribal lines are drawn for that to be a feasible outcome, and I think that when asking yourself a specific question it’s better to just look at how reality pertains to that question (e.g. “What is the optimal tax rate? Which societies have done better and worse with different rates? What makes sense ethically from first principles?”) rather than asking what different tribes say about it.
I think there was a miscommunication; I don’t mean to say that you are inaccurately describing some tribal lines that were going on in some other social scene, I mean that I have little faith that these tribal lines will be a remotely accurate guide to good ideas. Like national politics in the US which has two parties, I think it is wrong to think that one party has all the questions exactly right and the other party has all the questions exactly wrong, there are too many other social and political forces on where tribal lines are drawn for that to be a feasible outcome, and I think that when asking yourself a specific question it’s better to just look at how reality pertains to that question (e.g. “What is the optimal tax rate? Which societies have done better and worse with different rates? What makes sense ethically from first principles?”) rather than asking what different tribes say about it.