HoverHell comments on Dark Arts of Rationality - Less Wrong

136 Post author: So8res 19 January 2014 02:47AM

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Comment author: HoverHell 09 February 2014 07:39:30PM 2 points [-]

Side safety note: always "set" a time-limit on your self-hacks (some pre-defined moment at which you force yourself to resurface from your compartmentalized-mode / hacked-end-goals / inconsistent-state and re-consider the usefulness of it before diving back in with yet another timelimit if deemed worth it).

Also, this use of the "terminal goals" is still making me uncomfortable (even if it's not "terminal values"), especially with a sort-of-disclaimer that is not on the top. Would be quite nicer to make up a different term for it (e.g. "end-goals").

And, in general, with any successful self-motivation (especially with these methods that can, indeed, be super-effective) you are running into increased danger of pursuing mostly-useless end-goals.