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Edgelord Energy (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Rory from The Violet Hour)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Importance of Signaling in Interpersonal Life

"I may worry that any attempt to gain traction on their motivations would themselves be a form of signaling," he says. "But I don't think it's crazy for somebody who has skeptical impulses to also have the thought I am beholden to people for re-establishing the foundations if I can in the way that Descartes did." The book undermines all possible value claims you might form, his argument goes. It is not incoherent where it won't let you see things or reject particular conclusions but there are no possible ways to draw certain conclusions with this kind of skepticism according to Schopenhauer.

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