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Moore's Paradox (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Idealized

I was thinking of myself as this idealized agent. I think that the right moral or one right moral to draw from this story is that we don't really catch ourselves deviating from ideals. We don't catch ourselves. And because it's a little bit like why you can't make promises to yourself because you'll just let yourself out of the promise. So just be like, okay, self, I release you. That I think is invoking that ideal. Yes. You were ideal agent. You wouldn't be wrong in the first place. Well, that's an even stronger form of ideal. There's the ideal who just knows everything, but that's not usually a deal we're

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