Not exactly. If you want to avoid being manipulated, keeping your motivational structure secret is a good idea. Inconsistency does make it harder for others to anticipate your motivations and positions, but it carries some very high costs.
To the degree that rationality converges on common solutions, it is predictable, and that can be a weakness. But the converge is valuable enough that it’s usually worth just putting in some protections.
If you want to avoid being manipulated, keeping your motivational structure secret is a good idea.
FWIW, the Church of the SubGenius advocates the “Nameless Mission. To name it is to doom it.” I have found this a useful concept when there’s something driving me and I’ve yet to find its true name, but like its results so far. I also gave the concept to a friend who’s sick of their field (they’ve basically won that game) and about to change their entire career, isn’t quite sure what to pursue next but is accumulating new hobbies of great interest.
Not exactly. If you want to avoid being manipulated, keeping your motivational structure secret is a good idea. Inconsistency does make it harder for others to anticipate your motivations and positions, but it carries some very high costs.
To the degree that rationality converges on common solutions, it is predictable, and that can be a weakness. But the converge is valuable enough that it’s usually worth just putting in some protections.
FWIW, the Church of the SubGenius advocates the “Nameless Mission. To name it is to doom it.” I have found this a useful concept when there’s something driving me and I’ve yet to find its true name, but like its results so far. I also gave the concept to a friend who’s sick of their field (they’ve basically won that game) and about to change their entire career, isn’t quite sure what to pursue next but is accumulating new hobbies of great interest.