Peter_de_Blanc comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 16 May 2009 05:41:12PM 1 point [-]

[I] wonder whether there's a special term for desires that you want to want, want to want to want, and so on ad infinitum

"Reflectively consistent."

Comment author: dclayh 16 May 2009 06:10:50PM *  0 points [-]

I think that's for beliefs, not desires.

Particularly because you can bring your beliefs and metabeliefs, etc., into alignment by reflection, whereas making your desires consistent requires at a minimum some kind of action, and may not be possible at all (except for the trivial case of instrumental second-order desires as in Ex. 1).