That’s why I am asking here. What goal should I have? I use goal and preference interchangeably.
I’m also not expecting the goal/preference to change in my lifetime, or multiple lifetimes either.
First, goals, multiple. Second, internally generated (for obvious reasons). Rationality might help you with keeping your goals more or less coherent, but it will not help you create them—just like Bayes will not help you generate the hypotheses.
Oh, and you should definitely expect your goals and preferences to change with time.
It doesn’t make sense to have internally generated goals, as any goal I make up seems wrong and do not motivate me in the present moment to take action. If a goal made sense, then I could pursue it with instrumental rationality in the present moment, without procrastination as a means of resistance. Because it seems as it simply is resistance of enslavement to forces beyond my control. Not literally, but you know, conditioning in the schooling system etc.
So what I would like, is a goal which is universally shared among you, me and every other Homo Sapiens, which lasts through time. Preferences which are shared.
any goal I make up seems wrong and do not motivate me in the present moment to take action
You are not supposed to “make up” goals, you’re supposed to discover them and make them explicit. By and large your consciousness doesn’t create terminal goals, only instrumental ones. The terminal ones are big dark shadows swimming in your subconscious.
Besides, it’s much more likely your motivational system is somewhat broken, that’s common on LW.
a goal which is universally shared among you, me and every other Homo Sapiens, which lasts through time
Some goal, any goal? Sure: survival. Nice terminal goal, universally shared with most living things, lasts through time, allows for a refreshing variety of instrumental goals, from terminating a threat to subscribing to cryo.
That’s why I am asking here. What goal should I have? I use goal and preference interchangeably. I’m also not expecting the goal/preference to change in my lifetime, or multiple lifetimes either.
First, goals, multiple. Second, internally generated (for obvious reasons). Rationality might help you with keeping your goals more or less coherent, but it will not help you create them—just like Bayes will not help you generate the hypotheses.
Oh, and you should definitely expect your goals and preferences to change with time.
It doesn’t make sense to have internally generated goals, as any goal I make up seems wrong and do not motivate me in the present moment to take action. If a goal made sense, then I could pursue it with instrumental rationality in the present moment, without procrastination as a means of resistance. Because it seems as it simply is resistance of enslavement to forces beyond my control. Not literally, but you know, conditioning in the schooling system etc.
So what I would like, is a goal which is universally shared among you, me and every other Homo Sapiens, which lasts through time. Preferences which are shared.
Yeah, that’s exactly how motivation works .
You are not supposed to “make up” goals, you’re supposed to discover them and make them explicit. By and large your consciousness doesn’t create terminal goals, only instrumental ones. The terminal ones are big dark shadows swimming in your subconscious.
Besides, it’s much more likely your motivational system is somewhat broken, that’s common on LW.
Some goal, any goal? Sure: survival. Nice terminal goal, universally shared with most living things, lasts through time, allows for a refreshing variety of instrumental goals, from terminating a threat to subscribing to cryo.