Eliezer, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. When I backed up and asked myself whether, not why, I realized that
1) I’m no longer sure what “I am an egoist” means, especially given how far my understanding of ethics has come since I decided that, and
2) I derive fuzzies from repeating that back to myself, which strikes me as a warning sign that I’m covering up my own confusion.
Eliezer, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. When I backed up and asked myself whether, not why, I realized that
1) I’m no longer sure what “I am an egoist” means, especially given how far my understanding of ethics has come since I decided that, and
2) I derive fuzzies from repeating that back to myself, which strikes me as a warning sign that I’m covering up my own confusion.