hyporational comments on Dark Arts of Rationality - Less Wrong
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If I'm hungry, eating feels like an end unto itself. Once I'm full, not eating feels like an end unto itself. If I'm bored doing a task, doing something else feels like an end unto itself, until I've worked on a new task enough to be bored. All my values seem to need justification to an extent, and labeling any of them as terminal values seems to cause significant cognitive dissonance at some point in time.