I can empathise with the feeling, but I think it stems from the notion that I (used to) find challenges that I set for myself “artificial” in some way, so I can’t be happy unless something or somebody else creates it for me. I don’t like this attitude, as it seems like my brain is infantilising me. I don’t want to depend on irreducible ignorance to be satisfied. I like being responsible for myself. I’m trying to capture something vague by using vague words, so there are likely many ways to misunderstand me here.
Another point is just that our brains fundamentally learn from reward prediction-errors, and this is likely to have generalised into all sorts of broad heuristics we use in episodic future thinking—which I speculate plays a central role in integrating/propagating new proto-values (aka ‘moral philosophy’).
I can empathise with the feeling, but I think it stems from the notion that I (used to) find challenges that I set for myself “artificial” in some way, so I can’t be happy unless something or somebody else creates it for me. I don’t like this attitude, as it seems like my brain is infantilising me. I don’t want to depend on irreducible ignorance to be satisfied. I like being responsible for myself. I’m trying to capture something vague by using vague words, so there are likely many ways to misunderstand me here.
Another point is just that our brains fundamentally learn from reward prediction-errors, and this is likely to have generalised into all sorts of broad heuristics we use in episodic future thinking—which I speculate plays a central role in integrating/propagating new proto-values (aka ‘moral philosophy’).