Yvain comments on Conflicts Between Mental Subagents: Expanding Wei Dai's Master-Slave Model - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Yvain 04 August 2010 09:16AM

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Comment author: hegemonicon 05 August 2010 12:03:36AM 1 point [-]

they honestly believe on introspection that they have admirable goals

This seems incorrect - anyone reasonably apt at introspection would not come to the conclusion "I have only admirable goals", but instead to the conclusion "I seem to have many conflicting goals". It's only a profound LACK of introspection that would make someone believe that they have only admirable goals.

Comment author: Yvain 05 August 2010 03:18:18AM 3 points [-]

Really? I honestly believe on introspection that I want to help other people and so on. I notice I'm not very good at it, but I want to.

Comment author: hegemonicon 05 August 2010 11:59:15AM 3 points [-]

But don't you also believe that you want sex, status, and other socially inappropriate things? I mean, you wrote this article, you're certainly aware of your conflicting drives.