So, I’ve been thinking about this for some time now, and here’s what I’ve got:
First, the point here is to self-reflect to want what you really want. This presumably converges to some specific set of first degree desires for each one of us. However, now I’m a bit lost on what do we call “values”, are they the set of first degree desires we have(not?), set of first degree desires we would reach after infinity of self-reflection, or set of first degree desires we know we want to have at any given time?
As far as I can tell, akrasia would be a subproblem of this.
So, this should be about right. However, I think it’s weird that here people talk a bit about akrasia, and how to achieve those n-degree desires, but I haven’t seen anything about actually reflecting and updating what you want. Seems to me that people trust a tiny bit too much to the power of cognitive dissonance fixing the problem between wanting to want and actually wanting, this resulting to the lack of actual desire in achieving what you know you should want(akrasia).
I really dunno how to overcome this, but this gap seems worth discussing.
Also, since we need eternity of self-reflection to reach what we really want, this looks kinda bad for FAI: Figuring out where our self-reflection would converge in infinity seems pretty much impossible to compute, and so, we’re left with compromises that can and probably will eventually lead to something we really don’t want.
So, I’ve been thinking about this for some time now, and here’s what I’ve got:
First, the point here is to self-reflect to want what you really want. This presumably converges to some specific set of first degree desires for each one of us. However, now I’m a bit lost on what do we call “values”, are they the set of first degree desires we have(not?), set of first degree desires we would reach after infinity of self-reflection, or set of first degree desires we know we want to have at any given time?
As far as I can tell, akrasia would be a subproblem of this.
So, this should be about right. However, I think it’s weird that here people talk a bit about akrasia, and how to achieve those n-degree desires, but I haven’t seen anything about actually reflecting and updating what you want. Seems to me that people trust a tiny bit too much to the power of cognitive dissonance fixing the problem between wanting to want and actually wanting, this resulting to the lack of actual desire in achieving what you know you should want(akrasia).
I really dunno how to overcome this, but this gap seems worth discussing.
Also, since we need eternity of self-reflection to reach what we really want, this looks kinda bad for FAI: Figuring out where our self-reflection would converge in infinity seems pretty much impossible to compute, and so, we’re left with compromises that can and probably will eventually lead to something we really don’t want.