I’d be cautious about saying something’s never a terminal value. Given my model of the EEA, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising to me if some set of people did have poor reactions to certain types of external constraint independently of their physical consequences, though “freedom” and its various antonyms seem too broad to capture the way I’d expect this to work.
Someone’s probably studied this, although I can’t dig up anything offhand.
I take back the “never” part, it is way too strong. What I meant to say is that the probability of someone proclaiming that freedom is her terminal value not having dug deep enough to find her true terminal values is extremely high.
(...) it wouldn’t be terribly surprising to me if some set of people did have poor reactions to certain types of external constraint independently of their physical consequences, (...)
Yes, I was commenting on this at the same time. The mental perception of restrictions, or the mental perception of absence of restrictions, can become a direct brainwired value through evolution, and is a simple step enough from other things already in there AFAICT. Freedom itself, however, independent of perception/observation and as a pattern of real interactions and decision choices and so on, seems far too complex to be something the brain would just randomly stumble upon in one go, especially only in some humans and not others.
I’d be cautious about saying something’s never a terminal value. Given my model of the EEA, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising to me if some set of people did have poor reactions to certain types of external constraint independently of their physical consequences, though “freedom” and its various antonyms seem too broad to capture the way I’d expect this to work.
Someone’s probably studied this, although I can’t dig up anything offhand.
I take back the “never” part, it is way too strong. What I meant to say is that the probability of someone proclaiming that freedom is her terminal value not having dug deep enough to find her true terminal values is extremely high.
That seems reasonable. Especially given how often freedom gets used as an applause light.
Yes, I was commenting on this at the same time. The mental perception of restrictions, or the mental perception of absence of restrictions, can become a direct brainwired value through evolution, and is a simple step enough from other things already in there AFAICT. Freedom itself, however, independent of perception/observation and as a pattern of real interactions and decision choices and so on, seems far too complex to be something the brain would just randomly stumble upon in one go, especially only in some humans and not others.