Luke_Grecki comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

77 Post author: AnnaSalamon 17 September 2010 07:02AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2010 10:24:13PM 2 points [-]

This post has been very useful to me.

If I had to isolate what was personally most useful (it'd be hard but) I'd pick the combination of your discussion of distorted reward signals and your advice about something to protect. I now notice status wireheading patterns quite frequently (often multiple times daily), and put a stop to them because I recognize they don't work towards what I actually care about (or maybe because I identify as a rationalist, I'm not sure). Either way I appreciate being able to halt such patterns before they grow into larger action patterns.