My guess is that the ideal is something like a default Ask culture with specific Guess culture contexts when it genuinely is worth the extra consideration.
IMO the ideal is a culture where everyone puts some reasonable effort into Guessing when feasible, but where Asking is also fully accepted.
The huge problem with that is that the extreme deadliness of one of ideologies that has rushed in to fill the void caused by the discrediting of Christianity: namely, the one (usually referred to vaguely by “progress” or “innovation”) that views every personal, organizational and political decision through the lens of which decision best advances or accelerates science and technology.
Is this really a widely held ideology? My impression is that the AI race is driven by greed much more than ideology.
I hope you are no longer married to the woman who used to hit you.
Did you ever make this post?
Very interesting post! I have a question: It seems to me that your “Goodness of Reality” hypothesis implies (or is equivalent to) the following corollary:
For any conscious entity E and any circumstances C, there exists some “attitude” or “interpretation” A which entity E can adopt which will allow entity E to be perfectly content and happy while experiencing circumstances C.
Do you agree with my corollary?
(I am not sure whether “attitude” or “interpretation” are good terms, but at least in my own meditation experience and from what I have read, suffering seems to derive largely or wholly from our “attitude” towards experience.)
Sorry, I am not going to read through the comments to look for it.
he did provide some evidence, though little
Can you please point out the relevant part?
the second-order effects of turning off the WiFi are surely comprised of both positive and negative effects
Linguistic nitpick: Strictly speaking the effects comprise both positive and negative effects. Equivalently, the effects are composed of both positive and negative effects.
The whole comprises the parts. The parts compose the whole.
then they decide to check, and it turned out one of them right and one of them wrong, one person was doing 75% of the work, and the other 25%
I am skeptical of this measurement. Your wording suggests that they were able to determine this with 2 digits of precision. I doubt that. Maybe you meant “one person was doing 3⁄4 and the other 1/4”, which sounds much more plausible and implies a much rougher, vaguer measurement.
As far as I remember (I did not re-read the OP), John provides no evidence that he did all or most of the work. We have only his word for it.
The problem of calculating workload is inherently highly nebulous and partially subjective, because a task can be more painful and/or time-consuming for one person than for another. In general it is not possible to measure workload precisely, not even in principle.
Say more words?
people frequently feel they did more then their fair share
Sure. My point was that maybe John felt like he did more than he really did.
Well, I am somewhat anhedoniac by nature. There are a lot of positive experiences which many (most?) people report and which I do not recognize. For example, the sunset does nothing for me. Sex has its moments but is overall disappointing and a far cry from its reputation. Live concerts are described by some as borderline religious experiences; for me they are cool and fun but nothing really exceptional.
Fortunately, my Buddhist-inspired meditation practice is helping me discover more joy in life.
I have Asperger, and I found it funny. :)
I can describe the different predictions that I can make when i say something is a urge or a goal—when it’s urge i can’t fail to get it, i do the thing i want to do, and feel satisfied.
This is not my experience. When I act on an urge, I do not necessarily feel satisfied. There is generally some pleasure associated with the act, but it can be extremely fleeting and short-lived.
This fleeting pleasure is better than nothing, and I will often act on an urge in order to get this feeling. But after the feeling has passed, I do not feel satisfied.
I only feel satisfied after I have accomplished something that feels valuable—a goal.
May I ask how you define the actual artsy counterculture?
as i see it, something like CEV work like that
What is CEV?
you can translate that to goal-framing by saying that my goal is the experience of walking or the pleasant sensation,
That is how I would explain it.
but i think that translation lose something important, and that it’s the wrong framing.
Can you please elaborate on what important thing you think is lost?
well, in my model, i act to achieve goal of from some impulse. the impulsive doesn’t have to be subconscious.
Fair point. It is possible to be conscious of an impulse and act on it even if it does not serve any particular goal. Let us rephrase:
When I do something, it is either because I want to achieve some goal, or because I am in the grip of some impulse.
moreover, there are circumstances when i try to act on my impulses more rather then less!
Why do you do this? In order to achieve some goal?
Your posts in this thread ooze with contempt for large swathes of people, on and off LessWrong. In this last post you are not doing much analysis; you are mostly just judging.
I get the impression that your reasoning here is motivated less by a desire to genuinely understand the human mind and more by a desire to dismiss people who disagree with you and feel superior to them.
Please note that this is NOT intended as an attack on you. It is intended as constructive criticism. I am suggesting that you could benefit from being more curious and more aware of your own biases.
Ads may have greater impact on you when you buy gifts for others. You are less sure about their utility function than you are about yours, so it is easier to nudge you.
This is a good point.
(Maybe I should even watch more ads for women’s stuff. I am usually clueless about what to give my wife...)
What is SBF?