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16 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life
“There’s a lot of that, but I think the other thing that is being overrated is what you think you already know about what’s important and what matters.”
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- 16 Jun 2021
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…If people in trying to assess their own preferences are underweighting their own experience, in relative terms, what are they then overweighting? Social conformity pressures? John Stuart Mill, who I’m a little bit of a fan of and have an interest in, complained about that very — he complained about his contemporaries that too many of them didn’t bother to ask themselves what they wanted or they preferred. They would just look around to see what was expected of them and then go for that. There’s a lot of that, but I think the other thing that is being overrated is what you think you already know about what’s important and what matters. It’s inertia. Inertia of your own assessments. Newcomb’s paradox: Are you a one-boxer or two-boxer, and why?…
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