To make hard tradeoffs in your daily life, you want to use the analogous principle “shut up and intuit” or “shut up and listen to your desires” or whatever provokes in you the mindset of using your mind’s experience
I enjoyed this and it clarified one thing for me. One question I have about this is shouldn’t you also listen to the part of your cognition that’s like “You’re wasting time reading too many fiction books” and “You could donate more of your money to charity?”
I think maybe what you’re pointing at here is to not immediately make “obvious improvements” but to instead inquire into your own intuitions and look for an appropriately aligned stace.
Good point, and you’re right that that’s the complex part. It’s very hard to say the criterion, but it’s the difference between “I feel like I should donate more of my money to charity because of this argument” vs “I should donate more of my money to charity, which I realized because of this argument”.
The deliberative process is like your heuristic in A*, and you definitely feel some strong push toward that option, but the S1 pathfinder hasn’t approved of the thing until (something happens), which I’m going to call “realizing it”. I think this meshes with our other uses of the phrase. Cf someone who “realizes there is nothing left for them here”, or “realizes that person is actually good”, or something—they aren’t going to have any sort of akrasia on acting from that new belief.
I enjoyed this and it clarified one thing for me. One question I have about this is shouldn’t you also listen to the part of your cognition that’s like “You’re wasting time reading too many fiction books” and “You could donate more of your money to charity?”
I think maybe what you’re pointing at here is to not immediately make “obvious improvements” but to instead inquire into your own intuitions and look for an appropriately aligned stace.
Good point, and you’re right that that’s the complex part. It’s very hard to say the criterion, but it’s the difference between “I feel like I should donate more of my money to charity because of this argument” vs “I should donate more of my money to charity, which I realized because of this argument”.
The deliberative process is like your heuristic in A*, and you definitely feel some strong push toward that option, but the S1 pathfinder hasn’t approved of the thing until (something happens), which I’m going to call “realizing it”. I think this meshes with our other uses of the phrase. Cf someone who “realizes there is nothing left for them here”, or “realizes that person is actually good”, or something—they aren’t going to have any sort of akrasia on acting from that new belief.