Just wanted to say I liked the core insight here (that people seem more-like-hidden-agenda executors when they’re running on cached thoughts). I think it probably makes more sense to frame it as a hypothesis than a “this is a true thing about how social reality and motivation work”, but a pretty good hypothesis. I’d be interested in the essay exploring what evidence. might falsify it or reinforce it.
(This is something that’s not currently a major pattern among rationalist thinkpieces on psychology but probably should be)
hmmmmm, ironically my immediate thought was, “Well of course I was considering it as a hypothesis which I’m examining the evidence for”, though I’d bet that the map/territory separation was not nearly as emphasized in my mind when I was generating this idea.
Yeah, I think your framing is how I’ll take the essay.
Just wanted to say I liked the core insight here (that people seem more-like-hidden-agenda executors when they’re running on cached thoughts). I think it probably makes more sense to frame it as a hypothesis than a “this is a true thing about how social reality and motivation work”, but a pretty good hypothesis. I’d be interested in the essay exploring what evidence. might falsify it or reinforce it.
(This is something that’s not currently a major pattern among rationalist thinkpieces on psychology but probably should be)
hmmmmm, ironically my immediate thought was, “Well of course I was considering it as a hypothesis which I’m examining the evidence for”, though I’d bet that the map/territory separation was not nearly as emphasized in my mind when I was generating this idea.
Yeah, I think your framing is how I’ll take the essay.