I think you are working to outline something interesting and useful, that might be a necessary step for carrying out your original post’s suggestion with less risk; especially when the connection is directly there and even what you find yourself analyzing rather than multiple links away.
I think the ideas are independently useful, but to get the best out of both, I’d probably have to submit a big post (rather than these shortform comments) and write some more related insights (I only shared this one because I thought it might be useful to you). Actually, I know that I’m likely too lazy and unconscientious to ever make such a post, and I invite people to plagiarize, refine and formalize my ideas. I’ve probably had a thousand insights like this, and after writing them out, they stop being interesting to me, and I go on thinking about the next thing.
I hope my comment was useful to you, though! You can start applying the concept to areas outside of morality. Of feel how postive experiences have the same effect (I have made many good memories on sunny days, so everything connected to brightness and summer is perceived more positively by me). There’s no need to “fix” good associations blending together, I personally don’t, but I also don’t identify as a rationalist. I’m more of a meta-gamer/power-gamer, like a videogame speedrunner looking for new glitches to exploit (because it’s fun, not because I’m ambitious).
I think you are working to outline something interesting and useful, that might be a necessary step for carrying out your original post’s suggestion with less risk; especially when the connection is directly there and even what you find yourself analyzing rather than multiple links away.
I think the ideas are independently useful, but to get the best out of both, I’d probably have to submit a big post (rather than these shortform comments) and write some more related insights (I only shared this one because I thought it might be useful to you). Actually, I know that I’m likely too lazy and unconscientious to ever make such a post, and I invite people to plagiarize, refine and formalize my ideas. I’ve probably had a thousand insights like this, and after writing them out, they stop being interesting to me, and I go on thinking about the next thing.
I hope my comment was useful to you, though! You can start applying the concept to areas outside of morality. Of feel how postive experiences have the same effect (I have made many good memories on sunny days, so everything connected to brightness and summer is perceived more positively by me). There’s no need to “fix” good associations blending together, I personally don’t, but I also don’t identify as a rationalist. I’m more of a meta-gamer/power-gamer, like a videogame speedrunner looking for new glitches to exploit (because it’s fun, not because I’m ambitious).