0:00 made a video giving an overview of my philosophy. I tried to be brief, I left a lot of things out. But it was still two hours. And it still couldn't include nearly everything. So I thought back over what I said, and I hope there's a really big part that was missing that I wanted to talk about. 0:22 I didn't really talk much about morality, 0:25 I did 0:26 touch on it. And two main ways. 0:29 The first way is, I talked about politics and economics. And that deals with the morality of how to treat other people how to organize society, how to deal with other people, how they should deal with you, you know, don't be violent to them. Don't commit crimes 0:44 interact on a voluntary basis, 0:46 leave them alone. If you can't do anything that you think is good, and they think is good. 0:53 That's important. But I think that's less than 50% of morality. I think personal morality, how you treat yourself, how you live your life, what your goals are, that kind of thing is more than 50%, and how you deal with other people's less than 50%. They're both very important, large categories. 1:11 But I don't want 1:13 to give the impression that 1:16 societal level morality is like the main 1:19 aspect. 1:22 The other way I dealt with morality indirectly was I talked about reason, 1:26 rationality, how to learn how to make progress. 1:28 And I don't think I explicitly set up but 1:33 a large part of my view of morality is you should act rationally, irrationality is immoral, you should be interested in the truth, you should be curious about ideas, you should try to learn things. That's what a good life is, 1:49 I regard error correction as a major aspect of morality, 1:53 things that 1:54 block error correction, and prevent errors from being corrected or immoral. That's what's bad. That's what hurts people things which allow for progress to be made for problems to get solved, for science to be improved, 2:08 for better ideas to get figured out, 2:11 and for mistakes to be fixed, those are moral, those are the kinds of things you should be aiming for. 2:19 There's a lot of scope for people to be different have their own tastes, to have their own interests to choose their own values. But there are certain very 2:28 broad universally applicable things like what methods of thinking are actually capable of getting the right answer, and what aren't, that everyone should be doing and should care about. And it just applies to everyone. 2:42 And the moral principles that apply to everyone, or the most important in general, 2:50 the reason 2:50 they're applying to everyone is that everyone actually needs them. There's not really any optionality there. 2:58 Some other things about morals is productivity, you should want to be a productive person, you should want to earn your own way in life, 3:07 you shouldn't view work as something to avoid, you should 3:12 figure out some kind of productive work that you like, 3:17 and part of your life should be productive. If you're just avoiding all types of productivity, something's wrong there. There's something screwed up where there's no productive activities that you like, 3:28 that's a bad way to be. It's about attitude to life, 3:33 it's OK 3:34 to accept charity, sometimes temporarily, 3:37 maybe even long term, if you got like 3:40 a long term injury, say, but 3:45 you shouldn't particularly like charity, you shouldn't want to be a charity case, you should make a very serious effort not to be a charity case, 3:55 it's better if you figure out how to deal with reality effectively, and you do it, you should be happy to do that. You should want to do that. To live in the world and to deal with it and to take effective steps to run your life 4:09 rather than to be a charity case, 4:13 you should 4:13 also have independent judgment, you should think for yourself, don't just believe what other people say, don't believe what the 4:20 experts tell you, or what the majority believes, 4:24 try to use your own brain, that's what you have it for, 4:30 you should see happiness, 4:31 I think 4:35 joy and positive things are good, and people should respect them and pursue them. 4:40 That's a fairly standard view. But there are some people who 4:44 seem to like something about suffering, or to just not view it as all that bad. It is that bad people shouldn't suffer. Suffering sucks. And a big part of mortality is trying to figure out how to organize your life. So you're happy instead of suffering? 5:00 That should be a major goal. 5:02 You also should consider what makes you happy? 5:06 Why does that make you happy? You should put critical thought into that. 5:12 And what do you find fun. Some people find it fun to get really drunk at a party and blackout and not remember it, 5:21 I do not recommend that, I think that is a bad way to be 5:25 to, you have to have critical thinking about what makes you happy and what your values are. But 5:29 you should, you should have values and you should pursue them, do your best to choose good values. And to 5:35 actually like them, you can't just intellectually decide, oh, I'm going to value that because it's all rational, 5:41 you have to understand it well enough and thoroughly enough that you remember it all the time. And that it becomes like natural and second nature to you that it's actually part of your life, that if that your emotions correspond with it, instead of contradicting it. 5:56 Integrity is another big one, I've got an asset arguing against line that I recommend. 6:03 One of the problems is people view line and integrity in a really narrow way. There's a nice line about it. And the fountainhead by round 6:12 which fans may remember. 6:16 So I recommend that essay because it talks about types of line that not everyone recognizes this line, and how to 6:26 more thoroughly care about and respect the truth and 6:30 be honest, 6:33 and how to make it a bigger part of your life than just 6:36 don't consciously, intentionally say something you know, is false. 6:40 And you're aware, it's false when you say it, you know, that's too narrow. There's a lot of other things people do that are similar and about 6:48 another part of integrity is rejecting contradictions. You want everything about your life to fit together to make an integrated whole instead of a bunch of disconnected pieces. And you never compare them with each other or look for connections. And you don't see all the ways that you're contradicting yourself and living in consistently 7:08 another big part of morality. not on the list. But I talked about it in the previous video is being connected to reality. You want your actions 7:16 or ideas to actually deal with reality, rather than ignoring reality, or faking reality, or trying to go your own way against reality. Those things aren't going to work, 7:29 you have 7:29 to live in reality, and figure out how reality works and 7:33 what you can do within the boundaries of reality. 7:39 One other thing I wanted to touch the previous video is a little more about parenting. So the goal of parenting 7:46 should be that your child reject some of your errors, 7:50 not that you transfer all your ideas to him, this is how progress happens, there's only gonna be progress. If your child disagrees with you on some points and has different ideas than you. It's all the same ideas as you that's not progress. You know, it's it's identical. Progress happens when your child uses his judgment and changes, something's 8:11 a lot of people, their goal is basically pass on their ideas, their child to make him into a good, competent, smart adult. And then when he's an adult, he can be an independent thinker. And I think that's a really messed up perspective. And the independent thinking needs to start as a child. And once you basically transfer all your ideas to him, and he's an adult and grown up, it's too late, he can change some things at that point. But in general, a lot of the core ideas are not going to change at that point. It's not impossible, but it doesn't happen very much. Once you indoctrinate your kid with your ideas for 20 years, 8:49 it's very hard to undo. And it's a lot better 8:51 if 8:52 some errors that corrected younger than that 8:54 if you're not, if you let your child have space to disagree with you on some points that a machine younger age 9:02 then it's much more possible for him to reject some of your really important big bad ideas. And that can be hard for the parent because they think they're right. And they think, Oh, my child's different and they don't want to tolerate that kind of diversity and dissent because they think their child is fucking up his life and they're worried for him. But people need freedom and especially intellectual freedom. And if you take that away from someone for the first 20 years of their life, you will destroy their mind and you're just going to got a 9:32 sort of a clone of your ideas but 9:36 not an independent thinker. 9:40 So if you want more info, go to Elliot temple.com, and the link to the essay about line will be in the YouTube description. Transcribed by https://otter.ai