This jogged a lot of thinking about how it fits into various modalities. I think the lack of an actual solution to hostile mind-reading might be a flaw in several modalities I've tried which could be part of why I've struggled to have the progress I made with them stick. Many of these at least point toward alternative methods of dealing with self-deception which could be useful and I think authentic relating suggests at least one idea for an alternative method of occlumency which feels a little more virtuous (definitely felt some aversion to your solutions... (read more)
I wouldn't put it as strongly as to say that it's a crucial part of every IFS session. It can sometimes be a very useful question and approach, sure, but I've had/facilitated plenty of great sessions that didn't use that question at all. And there are people who that question just doesn't resonate with.
Some reasons why the anti-democratic tendencies might matter:
This might be the guy in charge of deploying AGI and negotiating with other nations about it. I think we should be very concerned about the values of the person with the most power over this process. While purely caring about democracy could matter a lot for this, it's also a signal of a general lack of values and lack of thinking about values, that seems concerning if he can make decisions about governing AGI with massive downstream effects.
I think his anti-democratic tendencies also display his
This jogged a lot of thinking about how it fits into various modalities. I think the lack of an actual solution to hostile mind-reading might be a flaw in several modalities I've tried which could be part of why I've struggled to have the progress I made with them stick. Many of these at least point toward alternative methods of dealing with self-deception which could be useful and I think authentic relating suggests at least one idea for an alternative method of occlumency which feels a little more virtuous (definitely felt some aversion to your solutions... (read more)