Be careful with thinking a phenomenon is meaningless or nonexistent just because it’s an abstraction over an insanely complex underlying reality. Even if you’re unsure of the mechanism, and/or can’t calculate how it works in detail, you’re probably best off with a decision theory that includes some amount of volition and intent. And moral systems IMO don’t have an objective real cause, but they can still carry a whole lot of power as coordination points and shared expectations for groups of humans.
It seems that you didn’t understand that my main problem is that every time in my thoughts I rest on the fact that within the framework of a better understanding of the world, it becomes clear that the justifications why competitions are good do not make any sense. It is as if you have lived well all your life because you were afraid of hell, and now the previous justifications why it is worth living well do not make sense, because you have learned that hell does not exist, now it is not clear what is the point of behaving well and whether in general, is it worth it to continue to honor his father, not to steal other people’s things and other people’s slaves, to stone women for betraying her husband and burn witches? Maybe these rules make sense, but I don’t know if they have it, and if so, which one. I mean, I wondered what role do, say, sports olympiads play, but my only answer was that they force athletes to overexert their bodies or dope, and also spend a lot of money on such extremely expensive entertainment in exchange for releasing better films or let’s say the scientific race “who will be the first to invent a cure for aging.” Well, I’ve been recently thinking about how to organize the state according to the principle of “look at the economic incentives” and I seem to finally understand what sense competition can sometimes have. Those incentives. Competitions are one of the types of competition, so they allow not only to give an incentive to someone to go towards a certain goal, they can create an arms race situation when you need to not only achieve the goal, but do it faster/better than other participants. However, the key word is “goal”, and in sports olympiads the goal clearly does not make sense, like beauty contests, in science olympiads with a better goal, they allow you to determine the smartest participants for further use of their intellect, which does not make sense in sports olympiads, because machines have long been faster, stronger and more resilient than humans, and right before our eyes they are becoming more agile, however, at local sports competitions with a better goal, they allow people to be stimulated to move more.
Be careful with thinking a phenomenon is meaningless or nonexistent just because it’s an abstraction over an insanely complex underlying reality. Even if you’re unsure of the mechanism, and/or can’t calculate how it works in detail, you’re probably best off with a decision theory that includes some amount of volition and intent. And moral systems IMO don’t have an objective real cause, but they can still carry a whole lot of power as coordination points and shared expectations for groups of humans.
It seems that you didn’t understand that my main problem is that every time in my thoughts I rest on the fact that within the framework of a better understanding of the world, it becomes clear that the justifications why competitions are good do not make any sense. It is as if you have lived well all your life because you were afraid of hell, and now the previous justifications why it is worth living well do not make sense, because you have learned that hell does not exist, now it is not clear what is the point of behaving well and whether in general, is it worth it to continue to honor his father, not to steal other people’s things and other people’s slaves, to stone women for betraying her husband and burn witches? Maybe these rules make sense, but I don’t know if they have it, and if so, which one. I mean, I wondered what role do, say, sports olympiads play, but my only answer was that they force athletes to overexert their bodies or dope, and also spend a lot of money on such extremely expensive entertainment in exchange for releasing better films or let’s say the scientific race “who will be the first to invent a cure for aging.” Well, I’ve been recently thinking about how to organize the state according to the principle of “look at the economic incentives” and I seem to finally understand what sense competition can sometimes have. Those incentives. Competitions are one of the types of competition, so they allow not only to give an incentive to someone to go towards a certain goal, they can create an arms race situation when you need to not only achieve the goal, but do it faster/better than other participants. However, the key word is “goal”, and in sports olympiads the goal clearly does not make sense, like beauty contests, in science olympiads with a better goal, they allow you to determine the smartest participants for further use of their intellect, which does not make sense in sports olympiads, because machines have long been faster, stronger and more resilient than humans, and right before our eyes they are becoming more agile, however, at local sports competitions with a better goal, they allow people to be stimulated to move more.