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The truest mark of an ideology is that its adherents don't even think they're being ideological, just reasonable.
by ahelwer 3y ago
The truest mark of an ideology is that its adherents don't even think they're being ideological, just reasonable.
- ETH_start 3y agoEveryone thinks they're being reasonable.. and just for context: I don't put much stock in long-termism, but not because I see it as a potentially dangerous ideological dogma, but because I don't see it as that useful. In my opinion, the tendency of the optimal action for short-term interests to coincide with the optimal action for long-term interests, and how much easier it is to determine the former over the latter, makes it better to focus primarily on the near future, with a less-well-defined long-term objective being used only to orient one's general direction.