I’m advocating for updating in the general direction of trusting your small-scale intuition when you notice a conflict between your large scale intuition and your small scale intuition.
Specifically:
Have as much sex as you want (with a consenting adult, etc). Have as many children as you can reasonably care for. But even if you disagree with that, I don’t think this is a good counterexample. It’s not a conflict between small scale beliefs and large scale beliefs.
This is new information, not a small-large conflict.
As Wei Dai mentioned, tribes in the EEA weren’t particularly fond of other tribes. Why should people’s ingroup-compassion scale up, but their outgroup-contempt shouldn’t? Your argument supports both conclusions.
I’m advocating for updating in the general direction of trusting your small-scale intuition when you notice a conflict between your large scale intuition and your small scale intuition.
Specifically:
Have as much sex as you want (with a consenting adult, etc). Have as many children as you can reasonably care for. But even if you disagree with that, I don’t think this is a good counterexample. It’s not a conflict between small scale beliefs and large scale beliefs.
This is new information, not a small-large conflict.
Same as above.
As Wei Dai mentioned, tribes in the EEA weren’t particularly fond of other tribes. Why should people’s ingroup-compassion scale up, but their outgroup-contempt shouldn’t? Your argument supports both conclusions.
This is a good point, I guess.