To me this is exciting. I deduced that the mental architecture you’re describing should be possible. It’s extremely cool to hear someone just name it as a lived experience. Like, what would a mind that’s actually systematically free of Newcomblike self-deception have to be like, assuming the hostile telepaths problem is real? This is one possible solution. Assuming I haven’t misunderstood what you’re describing!
FWIW I’m pretty confident this is me too; you can ask me about it any time you like—I would love to figure out/replicate what I think I have going here, to find out if it’s teachable/shareable
(There’s -one- area of life where I’m less confident I have full access, so it isn’t fair to say I feel 100% this way—but 94-98%)
My values/morality are too complicated and contextual for me to be able to describe/list them easily, but if I’m not true to them, I feel some sort of phenomenological consequence—an emotional reaction (grief, anger etc), or a distinct lack of clarity (cognitive fuzziness, a drained feeling, fatigue); there are probably other signs too but those are obvious ones.
To me this is exciting. I deduced that the mental architecture you’re describing should be possible. It’s extremely cool to hear someone just name it as a lived experience. Like, what would a mind that’s actually systematically free of Newcomblike self-deception have to be like, assuming the hostile telepaths problem is real? This is one possible solution. Assuming I haven’t misunderstood what you’re describing!
FWIW I’m pretty confident this is me too; you can ask me about it any time you like—I would love to figure out/replicate what I think I have going here, to find out if it’s teachable/shareable
(There’s -one- area of life where I’m less confident I have full access, so it isn’t fair to say I feel 100% this way—but 94-98%)
they wrote:
what are your values/morality and what happens if you’re not true to them?
My values/morality are too complicated and contextual for me to be able to describe/list them easily, but if I’m not true to them, I feel some sort of phenomenological consequence—an emotional reaction (grief, anger etc), or a distinct lack of clarity (cognitive fuzziness, a drained feeling, fatigue); there are probably other signs too but those are obvious ones.