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Balancing Cognitive Styles
- Active open-mindedness and mindfulness are opponent cognitive styles.
- We need a higher-order way of coordinating them to optimize relevance realization, potentially leading to wisdom.
Virtues and Optimization
- Presenting virtues as a feature list implies they are logically independent and should be maximized.
- This is inadequate, as maximizing one virtue (like honesty) can conflict with others (like kindness).
Bridesmaid Dress Dilemma
- The bridesmaid dress dilemma exemplifies conflicting virtues: honesty vs. kindness vs. helpfulness.
- Do you lie to be kind, or are you honest but potentially hurtful?