My position would be that actions speak louder than thoughts. If you act as though you value your own happiness more than that of others… maybe you really do value your own happiness more than that of others? If you like doing certain things, maybe you value those things—I don’t see anything irrational in that.
(It’s perfectly normal to self-deceive to believe our values are more selfless than they actually are. I wouldn’t feel guilty about it—similarly, if your actions are good it doesn’t really matter whether you’re doing them for the sake of other people or for your own satisfaction)
The other resolution I can see would be to accept that you really are a set of not-entirely-aligned entities, a pattern running on untrusted hardware. At which point parts of you can try and change other parts of you. That seems rather perilous though. FWIW I accept the meat and its sometimes-contradictory desires as part of me; it feels meaningless to draw lines inside my own brain.
My position would be that actions speak louder than thoughts. If you act as though you value your own happiness more than that of others… maybe you really do value your own happiness more than that of others? If you like doing certain things, maybe you value those things—I don’t see anything irrational in that.
(It’s perfectly normal to self-deceive to believe our values are more selfless than they actually are. I wouldn’t feel guilty about it—similarly, if your actions are good it doesn’t really matter whether you’re doing them for the sake of other people or for your own satisfaction)
The other resolution I can see would be to accept that you really are a set of not-entirely-aligned entities, a pattern running on untrusted hardware. At which point parts of you can try and change other parts of you. That seems rather perilous though. FWIW I accept the meat and its sometimes-contradictory desires as part of me; it feels meaningless to draw lines inside my own brain.
Yes, this is where I’m at.