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Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman

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What Did You Learn From Charles Taylor?

One of my favorite papers is charles taylor's what is human agency? I think it's 19 77. Taylor works out this theory of how we make choices that involves values, or, or he calls them strongly valued of terms. We have kind of a collection of a valuat of terminology that we use in whih, whih we up date this collection. N this is just like a much better description for human agency and amuch better description of of how to operate. And it, it gets us out of this paper clip problem. That actually maps pretty well to how the e as actually think and operate,. Like they have their own little fashions, right?

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