But I don’t really care about replicating the things that programmed me—I just care about what they programmed me to care about.
Tangential public advisory: I suspect that it is a bad cached pattern to focus on the abstraction where it is memes and genes that created you rather than, say, your ecological-developmental history or your self two years ago or various plausibly ideal futures you would like to bring about &c. In the context of decision theory I’ll sometimes talk about an agent inheriting the decision policy of its creator process which sometimes causes people to go “well I don’t want what evolution wants, nyahhh” which invariably makes me facepalm repeatedly in despair.
Tangential public advisory: I suspect that it is a bad cached pattern to focus on the abstraction where it is memes and genes that created you rather than, say, your ecological-developmental history or your self two years ago or various plausibly ideal futures you would like to bring about &c. In the context of decision theory I’ll sometimes talk about an agent inheriting the decision policy of its creator process which sometimes causes people to go “well I don’t want what evolution wants, nyahhh” which invariably makes me facepalm repeatedly in despair.