beza1e1 comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - LessWrong

125 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11PM

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Comment author: beza1e1 10 September 2014 01:52:24PM 25 points [-]

Sounds somewhat like exploiting the Fundamental Attribution Error. Other people (including imagined selves) are not that much influenced by external situational factors in our minds. Thus, they act more consistent with their internal characteristics. ActualMe is always thrown around by external forces and emotion chaos.