Becoming less open-minded seems like a classic case of a healthy explore/exploit over a lifetime. I’m less open-minded about a lot of things than I was a decade ago and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I wouldn’t worry about a change of the same magnitude again over the next decade.
Edit: For me open-mindedness to isn’t a moral value, it’s just a means to an end. People who intrinsically value open-mindedness might be much more nervous about becoming less open-minded! That would be totally reasonable.
Edit 2: There’s something very ironic about using “older people become less open-minded” as a rationale for “I should commit myself to one social movement for the rest of my life”.
We may be talking past each other, because what I mean by open-mindedness I mean seems extremely instrumentally valuable on all kinds of views:
If I become less impartial, less open to evidence, and less willing to adapt to good changes in the world, this ought to concern me.
(I actually don’t know how reliable the above results about old-age conservatism are, so discount the above to the extent you don’t trust those studies.)
@ Edit 2: I’m not OP and don’t intend this as an argument for committing to EA 4eva. Instead it’s an example of value drift which concerns me, independent of where the social movement lands.
Becoming less open-minded seems like a classic case of a healthy explore/exploit over a lifetime. I’m less open-minded about a lot of things than I was a decade ago and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I wouldn’t worry about a change of the same magnitude again over the next decade.
Edit: For me open-mindedness to isn’t a moral value, it’s just a means to an end. People who intrinsically value open-mindedness might be much more nervous about becoming less open-minded! That would be totally reasonable.
Edit 2: There’s something very ironic about using “older people become less open-minded” as a rationale for “I should commit myself to one social movement for the rest of my life”.
We may be talking past each other, because what I mean by open-mindedness I mean seems extremely instrumentally valuable on all kinds of views:
If I become less impartial, less open to evidence, and less willing to adapt to good changes in the world, this ought to concern me.
(I actually don’t know how reliable the above results about old-age conservatism are, so discount the above to the extent you don’t trust those studies.)
@ Edit 2: I’m not OP and don’t intend this as an argument for committing to EA 4eva. Instead it’s an example of value drift which concerns me, independent of where the social movement lands.