EStokes comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong
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I think this is close to the question that has been lurking in my mind for some time: Why optimize our strategies to achieve what we happen to want, instead of just modifying what we want?
Suppose, for my next question, that it was trivial to modify what we want. Is there some objective meta-goal we really do need to pay attention to?
Well, if we modified what we wanted, we wouldn't get what we originally wanted because we wouldn't want to...
Can't think of anything else off the top of my head.