Eugine_Nier comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 24 March 2012 04:34:39AM 8 points [-]

I sometimes try to get myself to make better decisions by pretending I'm a character in a Choose Your Own Adventure book. (E.g. "If you decide to stay on the couch because you're too lazy to work, turn to page 30.") Unfortunately, in the real books it's rare that enough information is given for you to make a really good decision, and the authors also appear to like messing with you by having good decisions blow up in your face.

So, maybe a similar book that actually gave you enough information to make a good decision and rewarded good decisions and punished bad ones?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2012 06:04:57PM 7 points [-]

I sometimes try to get myself to make better decisions by pretending I'm a character in a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

This sounds like a more useful, more intuitive, much more widely applicable reification of my own method of "What Would Your TV Tropes Page Say?"

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 March 2012 08:12:42PM 6 points [-]

"What Would Your TV Tropes Page Say?"

The problem with TV Tropes is that they've been heavily primed with fictional evidence.

Comment author: JGWeissman 25 March 2012 06:55:17PM 10 points [-]

If you are influenced by the fictional evidence, your TV Tropes page will say Wrong Genre Savvy.