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How can you determine what is efficient without knowing what is valuable? And how you determine what is valuable only by logic? Even the instinct to survive is

• jxub 8y ago
  The question we have to ask ourselves is: "Is emotion perfectly aligned with our incentive maximization?". By now, we don't have an coherent answer as our main method of value assesment is money (whose value is shared as a belief). Also, before we proceed we should try to strip our incentives of every trace of emotion, which we'll assume as flawedly disposed against us, as it lags by millenia behing our rational brain, which makes most emotional feedback futile nowadays. We should first strive to develop a framework that encompasses and evaluates every aspect of existence (which money can't capture yet), and then deny our emotions and work towards achieving the goals of said framework. That or wander aimlessly on this planet guided by our hormonal responses and never leaving the Solar System, just living by our feelings. Unless, of course, we'll manage to reduce the lag of experience-emotions to one comparable to that of reason.