𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗

Game design director, philosophy fan, Christian fallibilist.
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@DavidRland We could indeed say such feelings are by default "aligned" unless certain features corrupt them, or we could say they're by default "unaligned" unless certain features properly orient them. Do we call it a "compass" if its needle is not yet magnetized?

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@DavidRland What do you think of collapsing to feelings? When A seems better than B I also feel that A is better than B, but sometimes I feel like going A even when A and B are roughly on par in terms of apparent merit, or even when A seems less rationally viable (like in wishful thinking).

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@kamez104 @SmokeTheShow @Y40IFRQTTING Dang, mea culpa. Props.

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@SmokeTheShow @kamez104 @Y40IFRQTTING It's trending due to the announcement so randomly mentioning it in comments is like hopping on the train

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@DavidRland "Sun size" does a good job expressing it. The key questions are:
1. How do things look/feel? (This knocks on the door; "inclines belief.")
2. Then, do we let those inputs "in the door" to inform our beliefs?
Since #2 is method-dependent, this yields a variety of framing options:

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@DavidRland This sounds like a great lead, I will follow up on it.

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@DavidRland @SpeedWatkins @waldenpod @Michael__Huemer @majestyofreason (6/6) A while back I wrote an article (excerpt below) cautioning viral thought experiments that distort our intuition. This is important to me because intuitions are important to me, and I rely on them, like leaning on a walking stick that nevertheless can slip or break.

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@DavidRland @SpeedWatkins @waldenpod @Michael__Huemer @majestyofreason (5/6) The text cited William James, criticizing one who says "Better to go without a belief forever than believe a lie!" Lance & I are fans of James, and likewise critique this as a universal maxim. *Whether* it's better is a function of a justificatory method, per a situation.

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@DavidRland @SpeedWatkins @waldenpod @Michael__Huemer @majestyofreason Thanks David. Your passion & depth of reading is clear; there's a possibility of conciliation if I do a better job explaining the intent (attached).
Aside: It's a treat to speak to someone from Brasil! "Temple of Shadows" from Brasilian band Angra is one of my favorite albums.

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@DavidRland Here, we are able to get specific because the individual did in fact clarify the criteria he was using. But generally speaking we see ambiguity (often by way of daisy chaining to further ambiguous concepts), to which Lance appears to be speaking here.

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@DavidRland Lance and I wrote the following, which clarifies that while we feel something in some ways similar to what is being called "intuitions," it's in a crucial sense a galaxy away from these "intuitions" as used in the literature, because of one key criterion:

https://t.co/EfdMOhxtnC

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@CHold @trailblazers I remember my first comment on your stuff from years ago: "Great work as always, Casey." Very sad to hear this but best of luck wherever you land, you're the man.

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@darwintojesus https://t.co/WfZhvGGms7

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99% of metaethics discourse

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@goingawoll @Trying0Learn @Philip_Goff Couple things...
(1) If you allow value realism to be not-prohibitively-low, you're not accepting every feature of Bush's metaphilosophy.
(2) "Murder is wrong" can be stance-independently true under anti-realism, per conceptual constraints alone:

https://t.co/KlUeokrHWp

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@Philip_Goff In order to remain epistemically neutral when expressing the modal ontological argument, shouldn't we use mixed modality, where the first possibility operator reflects the contextual noncommitment and "survives" S5 unaffected by the metaphysical necessity of God?