JamesAndrix comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 17 May 2009 07:46:27PM 0 points [-]

I identified 2 and 4 as most clearly about just wanting utilons.

I suspect that all such metawants can be reduced to trade-offs in the world. There is a bad tasting alertness potion, an addictive happiness drug with side effects, and a nonintuitive offer of money.

3 is a bit harder to look at this way, I think any solution needs to work just as well for Darryl who is also homosexual and finds it repulsive, but instead desires to no longer find it repulsive.