I can’t see mine, but I have a fact that seems very likely to help pointing in the right direction: I can’t seem to find any USE of rationality, and thus cant do any kind of trials or calibrations. I never have to make non-obvious decisions with large enough stakes to be worth spending more than 5 seconds on. Most large scale important things like long term goals I’ve just read from the sequences and don’t need determining myself. I never seem to need a truth I can’t just get from goggle. Outside of artistic output there seem to be almost no indications I’m generally intelligent. Possessing any kind of system 2 thinking seems to be a clear net negative for me, I’m almost always better of acting on instinct and naive heuristics.
Obviously, it can’t reasonably BE that way, but it SEEMS that way from the inside, and the illusion is extraordinarily robust and complete.
I think I’ve thought of a way you can attempt to deconstruct this illusion.
If it really is extraordinarily robust and complete, then you should be able to lay out a brief summary of all of your decisions with large stakes, and a 1 sentence explanation of why you chose them.
If there are any obviously flawed statements then they should stand out as being less robust to other people.
If there are any large areas you just don’t mention as a large stakes decision, that would probably also stand out as being less complete to other people.
If you find that you can’t lay out the list because you find yourself thinking “Item 3: I choose to follow a career in… erm… hmm, that’s a tricky one.” Then you’ve solved it yourself and you don’t even need other people. Similarly if you find yourself thinking “Wait, I don’t even think I realized this thing was a big decision until I tried to generate this list.” then you have solved it yourself.
If you find you need several sentences to justify a large stakes decision, that means you probably took longer than 5 seconds to think about it, and you may have solved it yourself again.
If everyone looks at your list and says “That really does sound robust and complete.” then you have made a very impressive list of complete life decisions and answers, and in a very short time, which I would actually take as an indication you possess a great deal of general intelligence.
There are other possibilities, but that sounds like a good way of trying to start looking at the problem.
I can’t come up with ANY items for the list. The only example you gave was choice of carrier, and the answer to that is “my health precludes having any kind of carrier or education any time soon, and by the time that changes all the relevant information to making the decision will be different”.
I feel like the next step is to ask you about your health problems then. As an example, I know a lot of other people who I’ve talked that have health problems or have relatives with health problems sometimes have to make important treatment decisions. Does that come up for you?
Nope. I’d rather not talk about the details, but there is absolutely nothing I can do other than wait, for moths, for the red tape that’ll allow my treatment to begin while my life keeps getting worse and worse and my family is torn apart etc. etc. it’s a clich’e.
I can’t see mine, but I have a fact that seems very likely to help pointing in the right direction: I can’t seem to find any USE of rationality, and thus cant do any kind of trials or calibrations. I never have to make non-obvious decisions with large enough stakes to be worth spending more than 5 seconds on. Most large scale important things like long term goals I’ve just read from the sequences and don’t need determining myself. I never seem to need a truth I can’t just get from goggle. Outside of artistic output there seem to be almost no indications I’m generally intelligent. Possessing any kind of system 2 thinking seems to be a clear net negative for me, I’m almost always better of acting on instinct and naive heuristics.
Obviously, it can’t reasonably BE that way, but it SEEMS that way from the inside, and the illusion is extraordinarily robust and complete.
I think I’ve thought of a way you can attempt to deconstruct this illusion.
If it really is extraordinarily robust and complete, then you should be able to lay out a brief summary of all of your decisions with large stakes, and a 1 sentence explanation of why you chose them.
If there are any obviously flawed statements then they should stand out as being less robust to other people.
If there are any large areas you just don’t mention as a large stakes decision, that would probably also stand out as being less complete to other people.
If you find that you can’t lay out the list because you find yourself thinking “Item 3: I choose to follow a career in… erm… hmm, that’s a tricky one.” Then you’ve solved it yourself and you don’t even need other people. Similarly if you find yourself thinking “Wait, I don’t even think I realized this thing was a big decision until I tried to generate this list.” then you have solved it yourself.
If you find you need several sentences to justify a large stakes decision, that means you probably took longer than 5 seconds to think about it, and you may have solved it yourself again.
If everyone looks at your list and says “That really does sound robust and complete.” then you have made a very impressive list of complete life decisions and answers, and in a very short time, which I would actually take as an indication you possess a great deal of general intelligence.
There are other possibilities, but that sounds like a good way of trying to start looking at the problem.
I can’t come up with ANY items for the list. The only example you gave was choice of carrier, and the answer to that is “my health precludes having any kind of carrier or education any time soon, and by the time that changes all the relevant information to making the decision will be different”.
I feel like the next step is to ask you about your health problems then. As an example, I know a lot of other people who I’ve talked that have health problems or have relatives with health problems sometimes have to make important treatment decisions. Does that come up for you?
Nope. I’d rather not talk about the details, but there is absolutely nothing I can do other than wait, for moths, for the red tape that’ll allow my treatment to begin while my life keeps getting worse and worse and my family is torn apart etc. etc. it’s a clich’e.