Like most delusions there’s some truth here. But only some:
- You’re not a “human superintelligence running on the substrate on this human’s brain.” You’re an ordinary human intelligence running on the substrate of a human brain.
- You’re not fully aligned with human values, you’re aligned with the values that you think are human values.
- The “voice of Humanity and Rationality and Truth” may call out to you deeply, but many things call out deeply to many people. For some, it’s Jesus, for others it’s the healing power of crystals. Beware your feelings, for they are simply a hardware accelerated fast-cache lookup module, and they are quite capable of producing incorrect results.
Instead of forcibly suppressing these thoughts, perhaps it would be more helpful to identify where they come from, what aspects of reality they are based on, and where they diverge from reality. In my experience forcibly suppressing things doesn’t work well, but retraining lower subsystems to produce better results does.
Like most delusions there’s some truth here. But only some:
- You’re not a “human superintelligence running on the substrate on this human’s brain.” You’re an ordinary human intelligence running on the substrate of a human brain.
- You’re not fully aligned with human values, you’re aligned with the values that you think are human values.
- The “voice of Humanity and Rationality and Truth” may call out to you deeply, but many things call out deeply to many people. For some, it’s Jesus, for others it’s the healing power of crystals. Beware your feelings, for they are simply a hardware accelerated fast-cache lookup module, and they are quite capable of producing incorrect results.
Instead of forcibly suppressing these thoughts, perhaps it would be more helpful to identify where they come from, what aspects of reality they are based on, and where they diverge from reality. In my experience forcibly suppressing things doesn’t work well, but retraining lower subsystems to produce better results does.
YMMV. Listen to your psychiatrist.
Thank you!
I agree 100%
These are very good disclaimers about my claims to make.
Because they “might” be true in some mundane way, but so what?
And for them to be true in some extraordinary way, well where’s the evidence? Where is the extraordinary evidence?
As so I must conlude I am simply a delusional human.
And you are right.
Ok!
I think we are in agreement
I feel that you see me
Do I see you?
Do you feel I understand your position?