13-9a1 A value scale consists of goods with which the individual is familiar—the good will not be on the value scale if the individual does not know about that good

We don’t know a lot of things. And if you don’t know it won’t be on your value scales. Once you know you know. It literally changes you since your value scales then change. But even if you know everything, knowledge is creative. So your value scale (that is, you) is always at the mercy of change.

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• 13-9a2 Indifference cannot be a basis for action—the choice could not be meaningfully revealed in action

Related:

• Action is observable, but valuation isn’t
  • 13-5b2a0.1 Only demonstrated time-preference schedules can be compared—we can say “A has demonstrated higher time-preference than B” but we cannot say “A has higher time-preference than B”
• On value scales and knowledge
  • 9-1a1 People who converge upon the truth converge with each other
  • 13-6a1 Without knowledge, self-identity is no stronger than the identity between any two people
  • 13-6a2 Knowledge keeps you the same, from the perspective of exhibited value scales
  • 13-6c1 The action axiom meaningfully implies corresponding value scales only when the action is mediated via corresponding knowledge
• What makes one’s value scale elaborate is one’s knowledge
  • 9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.
  • 9-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial
• Edge is in knowledge
  • 7-1b2 You can solve problems others have inexplicitly or unconsciously
  • 7-1b3 You can solve problems others will have but don’t have yet
• Knowledge is creative
  • 1-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).