I don’t think there’s anything irrational about modifying myself in a way that I find broccoli to taste good instead of tasting bad.
Various smokers would profit from stopping to enjoy smoking and then quitting it.
I don’t think you don’t need a fictional thought experiment to talk about this issue. I know a few people who don’t think that one should change something like this about oneselves but I would be suprised that many of those people are on lesswrong.
I was jarringly horrified when Yudkowsky[?] casually said something like “who would ever want to eat a chocolate chip cookie as the sun’s going out” in one of the sequences. It seems I don’t just value eating chocolate chip cookies, I also (whether terminally or not) value being the kind of entity that values eating chocolate chip cookies.
I actively modify what I enjoy and don’t enjoy when it’s useful. For example, I use visualization & reinforcement to get myself to enjoy cleaning up my house more, which is useful because then I have a cleaner house. I’ve used similar techniques to get myself to not enjoy sugary drinks.
I don’t think there’s anything irrational about modifying myself in a way that I find broccoli to taste good instead of tasting bad. Various smokers would profit from stopping to enjoy smoking and then quitting it.
I don’t think you don’t need a fictional thought experiment to talk about this issue. I know a few people who don’t think that one should change something like this about oneselves but I would be suprised that many of those people are on lesswrong.
I was jarringly horrified when Yudkowsky[?] casually said something like “who would ever want to eat a chocolate chip cookie as the sun’s going out” in one of the sequences. It seems I don’t just value eating chocolate chip cookies, I also (whether terminally or not) value being the kind of entity that values eating chocolate chip cookies.
I actively modify what I enjoy and don’t enjoy when it’s useful. For example, I use visualization & reinforcement to get myself to enjoy cleaning up my house more, which is useful because then I have a cleaner house. I’ve used similar techniques to get myself to not enjoy sugary drinks.