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Unless your utility assigns a positive utility to your utility function being altered, in which case you'd have to seek to optimize your meta-utility. Desire to change one's desires reflects an inconsistency, however, so one who desires to be consistent should desire not to desire to change one's desires. (my apologies if this sounds confusing)
One level deeper: One who is not consistent but desires to be consistent desires to change their desires to desires that they will not then desire to change.
If you don't like not liking where you are, and you don't like where you are, move to somewhere where you will like where you are.
Ah, so true. Ultimately, I think that's exactly the point this article tries to make: if you don't want to do A, but you don't want to be the kind of person who doesn't want to do A (or you don't want to be the kind of person who doesn't do A), do A. If that doesn't work, change who you are.