EDIT: I think the effects were significantly worse than this and caused a ton of burnout and emotional trauma. Turns out thinking the world will end with 100% probability if you don’t save it, plus having heroic responsibility, can be a little bit tough sometimes...
I worry most people will ignore the warnings around willful inconsistency, so let me self-report that I did this and it was a bad idea. Central problem: It’s hard to rationally update off new evidence when your system 1 is utterly convinced of something. And I think this screwed with my epistemics around Shard Theory while making communication with people about x-risk much harder, since I’d often typical mind and skip straight to the paperclipper—the extreme scenario I was (and still am to some extent) trying to avoid as my main case.
When my rationality level is higher and my takes have solidified some more I might try this again, but right now it’s counterproductive. System 2 rationality is hard when you have to constantly correct for false System 1 beliefs!
EDIT: I think the effects were significantly worse than this and caused a ton of burnout and emotional trauma. Turns out thinking the world will end with 100% probability if you don’t save it, plus having heroic responsibility, can be a little bit tough sometimes...
I worry most people will ignore the warnings around willful inconsistency, so let me self-report that I did this and it was a bad idea. Central problem: It’s hard to rationally update off new evidence when your system 1 is utterly convinced of something. And I think this screwed with my epistemics around Shard Theory while making communication with people about x-risk much harder, since I’d often typical mind and skip straight to the paperclipper—the extreme scenario I was (and still am to some extent) trying to avoid as my main case.
When my rationality level is higher and my takes have solidified some more I might try this again, but right now it’s counterproductive. System 2 rationality is hard when you have to constantly correct for false System 1 beliefs!