Nice post. I will be linking friends here frequently. It would be great if you replaced all references to “having a 0 utility function” with “feeling like you have a 0 utility function”. I know Vladimir_Nesov already pointed this out, but it’s more than a technical concern: I’ve actually used this distinction personally to get out of emotional nihilism myself.
The point is that even if you can’t think of what you want to do, you might be able to imagine what you would do in certain circumstances, and extrapolate something your unconscious brain might care about from that.
You might even want to include this in your list of heuristics :)
Nice post. I will be linking friends here frequently. It would be great if you replaced all references to “having a 0 utility function” with “feeling like you have a 0 utility function”. I know Vladimir_Nesov already pointed this out, but it’s more than a technical concern: I’ve actually used this distinction personally to get out of emotional nihilism myself.
See my first response in this comment thread.
The point is that even if you can’t think of what you want to do, you might be able to imagine what you would do in certain circumstances, and extrapolate something your unconscious brain might care about from that.
You might even want to include this in your list of heuristics :)