So, CEV presupposes false consciousness - that the average person’s belief system is misaligned from reality due to incomplete information, incorrect presuppositions, and so forth.
And the idea is that a wise leader will choose for the people what the people would choose for themselves if they had a correct understanding of reality, whether the people think they want that or not?
I guess today in LessWrong, we are re-inventing Marxism.
One must always keep in mind that the Rationalist project is explicitly a high-modernist effort; it is a permanent fight against postmodernism which it can never win, a philosopher’s lost cause. They can only look at Marxism as low art which must be elevated by sanctifying it with the nebulous ointment of “Western civilization”.
So, CEV presupposes false consciousness - that the average person’s belief system is misaligned from reality due to incomplete information, incorrect presuppositions, and so forth.
And the idea is that a wise leader will choose for the people what the people would choose for themselves if they had a correct understanding of reality, whether the people think they want that or not?
I guess today in LessWrong, we are re-inventing Marxism.
One must always keep in mind that the Rationalist project is explicitly a high-modernist effort; it is a permanent fight against postmodernism which it can never win, a philosopher’s lost cause. They can only look at Marxism as low art which must be elevated by sanctifying it with the nebulous ointment of “Western civilization”.