Daniel Schmachtenberger talk on the Stoa
- where would optimize for this metric create problems?
- what might we have to add
- dialectics to consider looking for higher-order synthesis
- individual vs. collective
- medium vs long term
no definable metric should be optimized
- ”the dao that is optimizable is not the eternal dao” Tao Te Ching 1 - The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
- defining inherently excludes other things that are valuable, and optimizing for our metric will inevitably harm what’s not included
a good metric would include and transcend its measurements
- possible ideas, not to be optimized for, but to be considered in conjunction with other things
- opposite of addiction
- people acting from sense of agency rather than compulsion
- Compersion
- opposite of addiction