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Good point.
I think in most cases the changes due to meditation are slow, so one is not thrust into drastically greater powers before observing how they've redesigned themselves with weaker powers.
The hypothetical slippery slope has you happy with each step, but you had imperfect visibility at the beginning; with full knowledge you would have been horrified at the result.
I find the prospect of gradual identity change (where I'm always locally happy) horrifying if it leads to me destroying things I now hold dear. But supposing that I accidentally took such a course, I'm sure I would be quite content.
Interesting. How does one distinguish preference drift from learning about unknown aspects of preference?
You're right. I think I'm incapable of it. In retrospect can tell you where I drifted from (or was naive about), but even that's just recollections of thoughts and emotion (i.e. not very reliable). I don't see any way to distinguish drift vs. learning about who I "really am" over my history, let alone in the present.