...another point of ‘suckiness’ is, I think, treating rationality as a person’s trait, a quality instead of just a kind of internal calculator which everyone has but few bother to tune. There was this Discussion thread about how your life was changed by LW, and people wrote much about how they themselves changed—it’s relevant, but not the answer.
I used to think I should be ‘more rational’, but I kept forgetting about it when Stuff Happened and then beating myself up and making hole-plugging rules like ‘NEVER get annoyed at my kid if he’s had less than 7 hours of sleep’. Then we started treating him for hyperactivity, and just like that life bloomed anew! (= I get occasions to be annoyed much more seldom and less severely.) So I kinda shrugged and told myself, I can be rational, and Nature can still kill me; which was something I did learn on LW.
I guess what I wanted to say is, life is what matters, but training sometimes makes it easier to bear.
...another point of ‘suckiness’ is, I think, treating rationality as a person’s trait, a quality instead of just a kind of internal calculator which everyone has but few bother to tune. There was this Discussion thread about how your life was changed by LW, and people wrote much about how they themselves changed—it’s relevant, but not the answer.
I used to think I should be ‘more rational’, but I kept forgetting about it when Stuff Happened and then beating myself up and making hole-plugging rules like ‘NEVER get annoyed at my kid if he’s had less than 7 hours of sleep’. Then we started treating him for hyperactivity, and just like that life bloomed anew! (= I get occasions to be annoyed much more seldom and less severely.) So I kinda shrugged and told myself, I can be rational, and Nature can still kill me; which was something I did learn on LW.
I guess what I wanted to say is, life is what matters, but training sometimes makes it easier to bear.