Spend an hour and a half refactoring your standing political views, by temporarily rolling those political views back to a childhood state from before your first encounter with highly communicable and adaptive memeplexes. Query your then-values, and reason instrumentally from the values you introspect. Finally, take or leave the new views you generate.
If your current political views are well supported, then they should regenerate under this procedure. But if you’ve mostly been recycling cached thoughts fed to you through encounters with adaptive memeplexes, this search process will produce very fresh views … and you might then want to say “oops” out loud.
Anything important or attention consuming is worth explicitly putting some directed compute into setting, instead of letting those cached thoughts largely drift around at the behest of surrounding environmental computations.
My memories of childhood aren’t that precise. I don’t really know what my childhood state was? Before certain extremely negative things happened to my psyche, that is. There are only a few scattered pieces I recall, like self-sufficiency and honesty being important, but these are the parts that already survived into my present political and moral beliefs.
The only thing I could actually use is that I was a much more orderly person when I was 4 or 5, but I don’t see how it would work to use just that.
Unreasonably effective rationality-improving technique:
Spend an hour and a half refactoring your standing political views, by temporarily rolling those political views back to a childhood state from before your first encounter with highly communicable and adaptive memeplexes. Query your then-values, and reason instrumentally from the values you introspect. Finally, take or leave the new views you generate.
If your current political views are well supported, then they should regenerate under this procedure. But if you’ve mostly been recycling cached thoughts fed to you through encounters with adaptive memeplexes, this search process will produce very fresh views … and you might then want to say “oops” out loud.
Anything important or attention consuming is worth explicitly putting some directed compute into setting, instead of letting those cached thoughts largely drift around at the behest of surrounding environmental computations.
My memories of childhood aren’t that precise. I don’t really know what my childhood state was? Before certain extremely negative things happened to my psyche, that is. There are only a few scattered pieces I recall, like self-sufficiency and honesty being important, but these are the parts that already survived into my present political and moral beliefs.
The only thing I could actually use is that I was a much more orderly person when I was 4 or 5, but I don’t see how it would work to use just that.