If you say “Here is how it feels to me when I get more rational” and it turns out that what you’re actually describing is how it feels to you when you get less rational but fool yourself, other people may want to use the signs you describe as warnings that they may be going astray.
If you say “Here is how it feels to me when I get more rational” and it turns out that you’re right, other people may want to use the signs you describe as indications that they’re doing something right.
(Of course neither of those will work well for people whose minds are too different from yours.)
Ugh. Thing is, I strongly discourage people from using those signs (from my main post) as indications that they’re doing something right.
I wouldn’t want myself to use those signs in that way.
I predict it would harm my attempts to be more rational if I did that.
In all of this I just wanted to share my subjective experience, because um, it’s fun to share subjective experiences? Or is it something people that are not me do not typically like?′
Edit: also see this reply to NancyLebovitz’s comment. It’s more clear to me now what has happened here.
If you say “Here is how it feels to me when I get more rational” and it turns out that what you’re actually describing is how it feels to you when you get less rational but fool yourself, other people may want to use the signs you describe as warnings that they may be going astray.
If you say “Here is how it feels to me when I get more rational” and it turns out that you’re right, other people may want to use the signs you describe as indications that they’re doing something right.
(Of course neither of those will work well for people whose minds are too different from yours.)
Ugh. Thing is, I strongly discourage people from using those signs (from my main post) as indications that they’re doing something right.
I wouldn’t want myself to use those signs in that way.
I predict it would harm my attempts to be more rational if I did that.
In all of this I just wanted to share my subjective experience, because um, it’s fun to share subjective experiences? Or is it something people that are not me do not typically like?′
Edit: also see this reply to NancyLebovitz’s comment. It’s more clear to me now what has happened here.