So essentially we are comparing the switching cost of non-default behaviour (fear, laziness, etc) to prospective gains (novel stimuli, predicted hedonically pleasurable stimulli (light behavioural addictions)?
This is a revolutionary sugestion for me but intuitively more sound than my earlier ideas. Brilliant! I wish I had examined my assumptions about productivity more earlier so I could have realised that my model for procrastination could be so off!
Well...hedonically, why shouldn’t we discount the future? I don’t have much confidence in my models of the future. I can’t imagine how I would rationally generalise from any subset of predictive ability how much confidence I should have in my ability to forecast and switch to hedonically more pleasant states. I’m sure someone could design a test, and somebody probably has here on lesswrong but I don’t even know what to search. Would appreciate any comments, since the smallest calibrations here would dramatically change my lifestyle, life and particularly my time horizon.
So essentially we are comparing the switching cost of non-default behaviour (fear, laziness, etc) to prospective gains (novel stimuli, predicted hedonically pleasurable stimulli (light behavioural addictions)?
This is a revolutionary sugestion for me but intuitively more sound than my earlier ideas. Brilliant! I wish I had examined my assumptions about productivity more earlier so I could have realised that my model for procrastination could be so off!
Well...hedonically, why shouldn’t we discount the future? I don’t have much confidence in my models of the future. I can’t imagine how I would rationally generalise from any subset of predictive ability how much confidence I should have in my ability to forecast and switch to hedonically more pleasant states. I’m sure someone could design a test, and somebody probably has here on lesswrong but I don’t even know what to search. Would appreciate any comments, since the smallest calibrations here would dramatically change my lifestyle, life and particularly my time horizon.