Yes, this has really fucked me up with emails, phone calls, and letters more so than anything like LW comments. Luckily, I’ve largely overcome it nowadays through conscious TDT-style reasoning.
It’s pretty reassuring to know that other people suffer from the same ridiculously dumb problem.
My problem is that I need to train myself such that whenever a case like that happens, I actually consider the problem in an appropriately rational state of mind and apply TDT-style reasoning. Otherwise, I just make fake commitments that don’t register and never get executed.
This sounds like something important to train for in general though.
Indeed! Before I learned about Ugh fields here on LW, I thought I was the only one. If I learned nothing else from all the reading I’ve done here, it’d be worth it just for that.
Yes, this has really fucked me up with emails, phone calls, and letters more so than anything like LW comments. Luckily, I’ve largely overcome it nowadays through conscious TDT-style reasoning.
It’s pretty reassuring to know that other people suffer from the same ridiculously dumb problem.
My problem is that I need to train myself such that whenever a case like that happens, I actually consider the problem in an appropriately rational state of mind and apply TDT-style reasoning. Otherwise, I just make fake commitments that don’t register and never get executed.
This sounds like something important to train for in general though.
Indeed! Before I learned about Ugh fields here on LW, I thought I was the only one. If I learned nothing else from all the reading I’ve done here, it’d be worth it just for that.