Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
The Theory of Anything
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The Challenges of Self-Coercion Discipline
I'm thinking that the Deutschian worldview with taking children seriously and this very non-coercive, non-authoritarian take, maybe there is this possible scope for something that has specific ideas because certain things are true and certain things are false. But I also think that that's not the way human beings are. And if you tried to not have any discipline at all, at least with our current knowledge state today, that would probably be hard to get the religion off the ground. That's a really interesting question. Could you figure out a way to make the sacrifice really not feel like a sort of internal discipline? The goal is that it becomes so much a part of your nature
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