MichaelVassar comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Alicorn 16 May 2009 03:08AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 16 May 2009 01:00:40PM 21 points [-]

I suspect most cases of "wanting to want" are better described as cases of internal conflict, where one part of us wishes that there weren't other parts of us with different conflicting wants.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 18 May 2009 11:05:45AM 4 points [-]

Agreed, but the parts in conflict may be of vastly different reflectivity. Some relevant parts may not have anything analogous to awareness of some other parts.