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Plausible. Seems like hardware to me, but introspection is a rather crappy lens...
Totally. My attitude with irrational people now is a deliberate "whatevs, not my problem". Of course things still rustle my jimmies. I just try to keep it contained.
I was describing parts of me that seem to be mostly under control, but I'd noticed they were not under control in some other aspiring rationalists I know.
The skype sounds wonderful, but I dunno about part 2. This one was just something I want to get off my plate as fast as possible. There's way better stuff in the works than memetic tribalism part 2.
I'll PM you if you haven't already.
I'm curious, what exactly are you picking up on that makes it feel like hardware? How would it feel if it were software?
I'm guessing it's the fact that feeling the urge feels like it's outside your locus of control so that it feels like something "your brain" is doing and not something "you" are doing, and that you can't see any underlying reasoning. Is that close?
Aww, bummer. I was hoping I could work my magic on you and have you post on LW about how it's totally software and that this is how to change your thinking. That way I wouldn't have to write it myself and it'd be more easily believable :p
How do you guys define hardware vs software as applied to brain functions?
Not in any rigorous or clean way. I basically just mean that it's "software like" in that it is changeable with interventions like "talking" rather than only interventions like "ice pick".