I re-read this series in honor of the 2024 lesswrong review. That spurred me to change one of the big things that had been bugging me about it since publication, by swapping terminology from “homunculus” to “Active Self” throughout Posts 3–8. (I should have written it that way originally, but better late than never!) See Post 3 changelog. I also (hopefully) clarified a discussion in Post 3 of how preferences wind up seeming internalized vs externalized, by adding a figure, and I also fixed a few typos and so on along the way.
Other than that, the series is far from perfect, but I still think it conveys the right big picture on an important topic, and I’m proud to have written it.
I re-read this series in honor of the 2024 lesswrong review. That spurred me to change one of the big things that had been bugging me about it since publication, by swapping terminology from “homunculus” to “Active Self” throughout Posts 3–8. (I should have written it that way originally, but better late than never!) See Post 3 changelog. I also (hopefully) clarified a discussion in Post 3 of how preferences wind up seeming internalized vs externalized, by adding a figure, and I also fixed a few typos and so on along the way.
Other than that, the series is far from perfect, but I still think it conveys the right big picture on an important topic, and I’m proud to have written it.