eli_sennesh comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong

67 Post author: Swimmer963 18 June 2014 04:00AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 June 2014 08:52:12PM 11 points [-]

That's such a good summary I wish I'd just written that instead of the long shpiel I actually posted.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 16 June 2014 09:01:57PM 7 points [-]

That's such a good summary I wish I'd just written that instead of the long shpiel I actually posted.

Thanks for the compliment!

I am currently wracking my brain to come up with a virtue-ethics equivalent to the "bro do you even lift" shorthand - something pithy to remind people that System-1 training is important to people who want their System-1 responses to act in line with their System-2 goals.

Comment author: bbleeker 18 June 2014 12:13:07PM *  4 points [-]

How about 'Train the elephant'?

Comment author: FeepingCreature 17 June 2014 04:06:56PM *  10 points [-]

something pithy

Rationalists should win?

Maybe with a sidenote how continuously recognizing in detail how you failed to win just now is not winning.

Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 17 June 2014 05:38:57PM 1 point [-]

'Do you even win [bro/sis/sib]?'