You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

GLaDOS comments on Have you changed your mind lately? On what? - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: Emile 04 June 2012 07:54PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (105)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: GLaDOS 15 June 2012 05:44:39PM *  0 points [-]

Specifically, what I've learned is that in dealing with things that are, to a large extent, affected by my unconscious, it is helpful to treat my conscious and unconscious as separate agents, only one of which I am in control of. In doing this, I noticed that the proportion of my decision making affected by unconscious "blips" was higher than I thought, and furthermore that my unconscious reacts to stimuli in a way which is predicted by pua-Game to a far greater extent than I believed (despite me being a very atypical female).

...

A great positive to this experience is that I can now, if I concentrate, notice which of my thoughts are conscious and which are unconscious "blips" which I rationalise.

I may have read too much Roissy but I've grown used to calling that part of me my hamster. (^_^)

Edit: Heh. It seems I'm not alone in using this terminology. Also overall my personal experience has been very similar, except I haven't yet tried poly.