6/20/2023 0 Comments Julia galef bojack twitter![]() Having that accurate map is really useful for making decisions. Having an accurate map of the world, knowing, like, where are the bridges crossing the river, and where are the risks and dangers, and which route can I take that will get me quickest to where I’m trying to go. My basic answer is because it improves your judgment. Julia Galef: … why should people move from soldier towards scout. ![]() For the sake of truth, including truth about others, a scout will seek accurate representation of others, just as they would want that for themselves. But I wouldn’t want an atheist’s position to be misrepresented any more than I would want my own position misrepresented. So the scout may need to speak up on their behalf to set them out clearly, even if the scout does not personally believe them. When others misrepresent ideas (either unintentionally or else in order to “conquer” a straw man), a scout who wants a discussion that seeks true understanding will want those ideas represented accurately. The point of scouting is to understand, not conquer. I believe there are times when it is very appropriate for scouts to speak up on behalf of ideas that they don’t believe themselves. And, then later, I was like, ‘Why am I defending this?’ And I didn’t even stop to ask myself, ‘Do I even believe that thing?’ I just reflexively tried to stand up for it. Julia Galef: Sometimes I notice myself defending things I don’t even believe because someone assumed I believed it and criticized me for it. ![]() Julia Galef, may you encourage much scouting! Great episode! It may be one of the most valuable of this year. My intuition is that a free society properly acknowledges that every life is worth living, with few exceptions for example, persons who justly incur capital punishment, and persons who judge their own lives not worth living. To these persons, it matters naught if a poet or philosopher decries the unexamined life. Many cognitively competent persons lead ‘unexamined lives’ that they themselves cherish. Many persons have cognitive impairments that preclude the examined life. Is the unexamined life not worth living? My soldier mentality - indeed, every bone in my body - says, Be life-affirming. Anger, envy, jealousy often catch one by surprise anyway. True, one might safeguard self-awareness by avoiding circumstances that trigger strong emotions but this strategy might be costly, insofar as emotions are the stuff of life. It’s hard to plan self-awareness insofar as occurrent emotions have a component of arousal that can short-circuit self-awareness. My intuition is that the examined life involves systematic reflection with an eye to self-fashioning, whereas self-awareness is a situational disposition. Psychological luck is a real thing.Īre the unexamined life and self-awareness alike? Yes and no. Self-awareness ties some people in knots. ![]() Is self-awareness prudential? Yes and no. I don’t fully accept the argument that it’s good for you in terms of your happiness, but I think it’s generally good for you.”– Russ Roberts I think in our own personal lives, self-awareness is really useful. “the idea that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ is a deep truth. Scattered observations - Disagreements at the margins, so to speak: Much insight and wisdom in an hour’s conversation! ![]()
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