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Ah, so he thinks 'treat others as free agents' means 'punishing defection, rewarding cooperation.' As we all know, incentives aren't deterministic....oh wait.
Ah, so he thinks 'treat others as free agents' means 'punishing defection, rewarding cooperation.' As we all know, incentives aren't deterministic....oh wait.
There's a bad philosophy cycle. Someone makes a bad ideology that's superficially satisfying. It becomes popular. Slowly, the fact it conflicts with reality is discovered. Believers become resentful-nihilists. Then someone makes a new superficially satisfying ideology.
Philosophers came up with this whole 'rigour' thing because we got tired of having to try every ideology. What if we could eliminate some prima facie? It also helps keep a record. Trying a bad ideology is bad. Trying an already-failed ideology is horrifying.
Jordan B. Peterson's ideas on free will have already failed, of course. But the packaging has fancy new colours on it, so it seems new.
Peterson spent so much time studying the history of bad ideas that he didn't have any spare time left over for studying good ideas. Thus he knows about Marxism. You know, just about. The connection to democracy eludes him, as it did not elude Moldbug.
