Qiaochu_Yuan comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sarokrae 14 July 2013 09:23:19AM 3 points [-]

In the process of trying to pin down my terminal values, I've discovered at least 3 subagents of myself with different desires, as well as my conscious one which doesn't have its own terminal values, and just listens to theirs and calculates the relevant instrumental values. Does LW have a way for the conscious me to weight those (sometimes contradictory) desires?

What I'm currently using is "the one who yells the loudest wins", but that doesn't seem entirely satisfactory.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 July 2013 05:50:16PM 1 point [-]

My understanding is that this is what Internal Family Systems is for.

Comment author: Sarokrae 15 July 2013 07:04:37AM 3 points [-]

So I started reading this, but it seems a bit excessively presumptuous about what the different parts of me are like. It's really not that complicated: I just have multiple terminal values which don't come with a natural weighting, and I find balancing them against each other hard.