The response (motivation) from fear may vary. A direction is relative to the observer. We use different points of observation and agree on many things with Richard. I find his approach sometimes narrow, sometimes long and winded. The reduction to move away from fear towards something you are excited about is one dimensional. The outcome is predicitable and always optimal (implying success): It is quite anecdotical.
The example of your friend (hoping she is well) illustrates and supports that. Her response (I speculate here) to fear resulted in behavioral change. That caused anxiety, leading to denial (not being able to cope). Richard often refers to Fear (I prefer Anxiety) or Excitement in a very broad sense and quoting from Frank Herbert’s Dune makes it worse. Just sayin, maybe it is a LW thing since this is Frontpage material.
Still, I strongly disagree on »Fear-based« and I would recommend »Anxiety-based« instead. It reflects much better on the current state of humanity.
Curiosity or Stimulation is much closer to what Richard refers to as Excitement, as an disambiguation its fine, in this context it misled me. Your guidance did help.
Emotions can have classification, the impact and results vary. Moving away from Fear (and anxiety) towards (curiosity and) Excitement is very close to an optimal outcome. Studies in various disciplines confirm these facts since ages and we both agree that in an such environments interaction happens naturally (fluidly). Too often neglecting group dynamics, disregarding economic constraints or optimization for productivity in working environments. Other environments are prone to the tragedy of the commons.
Humoristic closing note: If we take into account, that Richard does AI alignment, a intersection of human-intelligence as model and machine-intelligence as model I could conclude that his model for machines is probably much more complex than that for humans. Based on my limited observations of him giving out advice on LW.
The response (motivation) from fear may vary. A direction is relative to the observer. We use different points of observation and agree on many things with Richard. I find his approach sometimes narrow, sometimes long and winded. The reduction to move away from fear towards something you are excited about is one dimensional. The outcome is predicitable and always optimal (implying success): It is quite anecdotical.
The example of your friend (hoping she is well) illustrates and supports that. Her response (I speculate here) to fear resulted in behavioral change. That caused anxiety, leading to denial (not being able to cope). Richard often refers to Fear (I prefer Anxiety) or Excitement in a very broad sense and quoting from Frank Herbert’s Dune makes it worse. Just sayin, maybe it is a LW thing since this is Frontpage material.
Still, I strongly disagree on »Fear-based« and I would recommend »Anxiety-based« instead. It reflects much better on the current state of humanity.
Curiosity or Stimulation is much closer to what Richard refers to as Excitement, as an disambiguation its fine, in this context it misled me. Your guidance did help.
Emotions can have classification, the impact and results vary. Moving away from Fear (and anxiety) towards (curiosity and) Excitement is very close to an optimal outcome. Studies in various disciplines confirm these facts since ages and we both agree that in an such environments interaction happens naturally (fluidly). Too often neglecting group dynamics, disregarding economic constraints or optimization for productivity in working environments. Other environments are prone to the tragedy of the commons.
Humoristic closing note: If we take into account, that Richard does AI alignment, a intersection of human-intelligence as model and machine-intelligence as model I could conclude that his model for machines is probably much more complex than that for humans. Based on my limited observations of him giving out advice on LW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_dynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulation