“Now, I deliberately compare two future versions of myself, one armed with the technique I just discovered and one without. Seeing how much farther along I will be results in a net gain of motivation.”
Isaac Levi one of the founders of formal epistemology does something similar called “Mild Contractions”. From the title of one of his books
“Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to Loss of Belief”. His epistemology constructed from decision theory is very advanced if not the most advanced.
Incidentally, how cool would it be to be able to say “my epistemology is the most advanced”? If nothing else it’d probably be a great pickup line at LW meetups.
“Now, I deliberately compare two future versions of myself, one armed with the technique I just discovered and one without. Seeing how much farther along I will be results in a net gain of motivation.”
Isaac Levi one of the founders of formal epistemology does something similar called “Mild Contractions”. From the title of one of his books
“Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to Loss of Belief”. His epistemology constructed from decision theory is very advanced if not the most advanced.
http://www.amazon.com/Mild-Contraction-Evaluating-Information-Belief-ebook/dp/B00DZO8P4G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424401748&sr=1-1&keywords=mild+contraction
Interesting tie-in, thanks.
Incidentally, how cool would it be to be able to say “my epistemology is the most advanced”? If nothing else it’d probably be a great pickup line at LW meetups.