Cyan comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong
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I'm really bothered by my inability to see how to distinguish between these two classes of meta-wants. I suppose you just punt it off to your moral system, or your expected-value computations.
I think the distinction is that we think of Mimi as wishing to revoke a decision made of her own free will; not so with Larry.