#NonInstrumental
Our family’s experience in noninstrumental Churches of Christ is quite similar. We, American Evangelicals dare not look at the Southern Baptist and think 💭, “Surely not my people.” I have found that far too often “as go the Southern Baptists so go American evangelicals.”
May 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
CHAPTER 13 , CHAPTER 12 + 1 #Symbolism

"Chapter 13: Obsessed with Reality"

#TheEnlightenment #ReasonThinking #NonInstrumental
#NonInstrumentalReasonThinking

Non-machine non-instrumental Reason Thinking Year 1776 #Idealism

"Obsessed with Reality"

#CarlSagan

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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Ch 13) [Obsessed with Reality]
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April 24, 2026 at 12:09 AM
I'm reminded of a 1995 essay on objectification by Martha Nussbaum in which she points out there are plenty of things we do that we consider unproblematic that can only be called objectification. amazingly, the essay even uses the phrase "autonomous agents" (!!!)
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August 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The study shows that non-linear perceptions of probabilistic rewards explain non-normative information demand in instrumental and non-instrumental conditions, and correlate with personality traits and nonlinearities in risky-choice tasks.
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Modeling information demand in the framework of probabilistic reasoning - Communications Psychology
The study shows that non-linear perceptions of probabilistic rewards explain non-normative information demand in instrumental and noninstrumental conditions, and correlate with personality traits and ...
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February 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
August 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Report #9: Replication of a study from "Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, and Gain-Loss Framing Shape Preferences for Noninstrumental Information" (PNAS | Litovsky et al. 2022): http://osf.io/efa73/
June 26, 2024 at 8:11 PM
psyche.co/ideas/when-y... “The inner ideal aims at a way of being that is unfeigned and without illusions. It resists the cultivation of an affirming audience, because being a “whole” person, with a noninstrumental relation to self and others, is often at odds with the demands of society.”
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong | Psyche Ideas
Authenticity has changed from an inward gaze to a social display. Can we reconcile the performance with the real thing?
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March 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Report #9: Replication of a study from "Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, and Gain-Loss Framing Shape Preferences for Noninstrumental Information" (PNAS | Litovsky et al. 2022): http://osf.io/efa73/
June 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Our family’s experience in noninstrumental Churches of Christ is quite similar religionnews.com/2026/05/06/h...
How the devil was disguised in the SBC and Paul Pressler's Conservative Resurgence
(RNS) — During the Conservative Resurgence, I thought we were fighting for the Bible. Instead, we were also political pawns for an abuser.
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May 7, 2026 at 1:34 PM
How do suspense & surprise drive demand for noninstrumental information?

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Suspense and Surprise on JSTOR
Jeffrey Ely, Alexander Frankel, Emir Kamenica, Suspense and Surprise, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 123, No. 1 (February 2015), pp. 215-260
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January 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
¿Y si el tirano se llama conveniencia?
> Embracing inconvenience may sound odd, but we already do it without thinking of it as such. As if to mask the issue, we give other names to our inconvenient choices: We call them hobbies, avocations, callings, passions. These are the noninstrumental activities that help to define us. They reward us with character because they involve an encounter with meaningful resistance — with nature’s laws, with the limits of our own bodies — as in carving wood, melding raw ingredients, fixing a broken appliance, writing code, timing waves or facing the point when the runner’s legs and lungs begin to rebel against him. Si todo lo medimos a partir de cuán conveniente es, dice Tim Wu en esta columna en el New York Times, no solo nos rendimos ante los parámetros que nos entrega la oligarquía tecnolibertaria que gobierna nuestros teléfonos sino que nos olvidamos de nuestra propia humanidad. Rendirse significa pensar que nuestra única forma de expresión es elegir cuál foto de vacaciones es la que mejor le viene al fondo de nuestro smartphone. Vale la pena leer el artículo completo (está en castellano también, aunque incomprensiblemetne traducen _convenience_ por la espantosa "practicidad"), porque explora la relación entre conveniencia y la falsa autonomía, y porque enfatiza la importancia de elegir caminos difíciles, de las opciones que no son obvias, de las decisiones que parecen absurdas. Pero que nos humanizan, no están hechas para conseguir ganancias, están hechas por que sí. Porque, en algún sentido, **son** absurdas. Como compartir artículos que nos gustan. Así de absurdo.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
¿Y si el tirano se llama conveniencia?
> Embracing inconvenience may sound odd, but we already do it without thinking of it as such. As if to mask the issue, we give other names to our inconvenient choices: We call them hobbies, avocations, callings, passions. These are the noninstrumental activities that help to define us. They reward us with character because they involve an encounter with meaningful resistance — with nature’s laws, with the limits of our own bodies — as in carving wood, melding raw ingredients, fixing a broken appliance, writing code, timing waves or facing the point when the runner’s legs and lungs begin to rebel against him. Si todo lo medimos a partir de cuán conveniente es, dice Tim Wu en esta columna en el New York Times, no solo nos rendimos ante los parámetros que nos entrega la oligarquía tecnolibertaria que gobierna nuestros teléfonos sino que nos olvidamos de nuestra propia humanidad. Rendirse significa pensar que nuestra única forma de expresión es elegir cuál foto de vacaciones es la que mejor le viene al fondo de nuestro smartphone. Vale la pena leer el artículo completo (está en castellano también, aunque incomprensiblemetne traducen _convenience_ por la espantosa "practicidad"), porque explora la relación entre conveniencia y la falsa autonomía, y porque enfatiza la importancia de elegir caminos difíciles, de las opciones que no son obvias, de las decisiones que parecen absurdas. Pero que nos humanizan, no están hechas para conseguir ganancias, están hechas por que sí. Porque, en algún sentido, **son** absurdas. Como compartir artículos que nos gustan. Así de absurdo.
claudioruiz.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
e vcs falando que hobby tem que ser relaxante
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM