Rationalist taboo comes to mind, and actually updating based on evidence, and generally changing one’s behavior to match one’s beliefs. That last one seems to require a bit more give and take than just handing someone a set of rules, but I think that’s a good thing, and we could streamline the process by coming up with a list of common beliefs and behavioral implications thereof (cryo, for example).
I took the categories of the norms from this post you made earlier. The ‘updating based on evidence’ seemed more like a skill than a belief, and the other two categories you mention explicitly. If they end up not being a useful division, then they’ll end up getting changed. I don’t have any investment in them.
I mentioned updating beliefs based on evidence, and acting based on one’s beliefs, but not having particular beliefs in general. The last bit, about the list of common beliefs, was meant to be along the lines of “If you believe A, you should do B. If you believe C, you should do D. If you believe E...”, not a list of endorsed beliefs.
Norms do usually contain taboos, but there isn’t any particular reason that we have to. Should that category be deleted, or do we have things that we think should be taboo?
One that springs to mind as a possibility would be the use of the Dark Arts.
edit—I was thinking that our list of endorsed beliefs would be slightly more basic, things like ‘rationality is worth pursuing’ or something. http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,106-1-2-1,FF.html is the small amount of norms that the LDS church has codified as an easy reference to point potential converts to, and while I don’t like the idea of converting people, being able to point to a set of beliefs that sounds boringly sane might be a good thing.
Codifying taboos seems reasonable if we’re codifying norms in general—taboos are basically norms of not doing certain things, after all.
We seem to have a pretty strong norm of not lying to each other, and a weaker (and possibly not generally endorsed) norm of not talking about any religious or spiritual practices that we might have.
Perhaps add a version number with a datestamp?
I took the categories of the norms from this post you made earlier. The ‘updating based on evidence’ seemed more like a skill than a belief, and the other two categories you mention explicitly. If they end up not being a useful division, then they’ll end up getting changed. I don’t have any investment in them.
Eh?
I mentioned updating beliefs based on evidence, and acting based on one’s beliefs, but not having particular beliefs in general. The last bit, about the list of common beliefs, was meant to be along the lines of “If you believe A, you should do B. If you believe C, you should do D. If you believe E...”, not a list of endorsed beliefs.
Also, rationalist taboo is not about taboos in the usual sense.
Oh, so it isn’t. Oops. Hm.
Norms do usually contain taboos, but there isn’t any particular reason that we have to. Should that category be deleted, or do we have things that we think should be taboo?
One that springs to mind as a possibility would be the use of the Dark Arts.
edit—I was thinking that our list of endorsed beliefs would be slightly more basic, things like ‘rationality is worth pursuing’ or something. http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,106-1-2-1,FF.html is the small amount of norms that the LDS church has codified as an easy reference to point potential converts to, and while I don’t like the idea of converting people, being able to point to a set of beliefs that sounds boringly sane might be a good thing.
Codifying taboos seems reasonable if we’re codifying norms in general—taboos are basically norms of not doing certain things, after all.
We seem to have a pretty strong norm of not lying to each other, and a weaker (and possibly not generally endorsed) norm of not talking about any religious or spiritual practices that we might have.
Not lying to each other sounds like a very good one.