Sublime

“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him,” Walker Percy observes.

The Ultimatum Game made a significant contribution to undermining classical economic theories and to establishing the most important economic discovery of the last few decades: Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.

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For instance, wisdom may tell us that wealth is generally preferable to debt, but valuing money more highly than justice is a vice. In

society with channels of feedback that maximize human flourishing will have mechanisms in place,

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Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.

ESSENTIALISM.

As soon as we consider a wider range of conscious entities with varying degrees of capability and power, we face tricky trade-offs between protecting the weak and “might makes right.”