Man this is such a big issue with the Sequences. Like, “Is that your true rejection” is a concept that I use very often: when I decide to not do something, I would sometimes go “hmm, what’s the real reason I don’t want to do this?” I believe that we often come up with nice-sounding reasons to not do this that are totally unrelated to our true motivations, and noticing this is an important rationalist skill.
But “Is that your true rejection” is also just Eliezer complaining about how people wouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t have a PhD, and him saying “I bet you wouldn’t listen, even if I had one!!” Sure grandpa let’s get you to bed
Man this is such a big issue with the Sequences. Like, “Is that your true rejection” is a concept that I use very often: when I decide to not do something, I would sometimes go “hmm, what’s the real reason I don’t want to do this?” I believe that we often come up with nice-sounding reasons to not do this that are totally unrelated to our true motivations, and noticing this is an important rationalist skill.
But “Is that your true rejection” is also just Eliezer complaining about how people wouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t have a PhD, and him saying “I bet you wouldn’t listen, even if I had one!!”
Sure grandpa let’s get you to bed