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SquirrelInHell comments on Consider having sparse insides - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: AnnaSalamon 01 April 2016 12:07AM

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 01 April 2016 01:59:44AM *  0 points [-]

Seems sensible except for the part with "enjoys".

not "I am a person who enjoys nature"

"I am a person who enjoys X" is a common generalization from "I notice I enjoy X", so I'll give it credit and interpret it in this way.

(A strawman position to argue against would be "I'm a person who somehow ended up treating enjoying X as a part of their identity and are now stuck with thinking like this regardless of whether it's accurate", which could obviously benefit from pruning the identity. But I call this a strawman, because I think people actually do notice when they no longer really enjoy something.)

I don't see how to replace "I notice I enjoy X" with "I aim to be effective". If I'm not mistaken about my preference for X (i.e. there's no Y available to me currently such that after trying Y I would stop enjoying X), these two seem to be orthogonal.