Seconded; more specifically it seems to me that if one does not want something but one wants to want it, it has to be the case that either:
there’s one entity doing the not wanting, and some other entity that wants the one entity to stop doing the not wanting
one values wanting the thing for the sake of wanting the thing or for the sake of some result of wanting the thing other than getting the thing, not for the sake of getting the thing, and moreover one values wanting the thing so much that this outweighs the extra likelihood of getting the thing
one does not want to want the thing unconditionally, but one does want the thing to turn into a different thing that one does want (e.g. Alicorn’s Mountain Dew example; there the thing one wants is to enjoy and want to drink Mountain Dew, which is not the same thing as wanting to want to drink Mountain Dew even though one does not enjoy it)
“wanting” here is some more informal human thing that isn’t captured by rational decision theory (which is bad!)
Seconded; more specifically it seems to me that if one does not want something but one wants to want it, it has to be the case that either:
there’s one entity doing the not wanting, and some other entity that wants the one entity to stop doing the not wanting
one values wanting the thing for the sake of wanting the thing or for the sake of some result of wanting the thing other than getting the thing, not for the sake of getting the thing, and moreover one values wanting the thing so much that this outweighs the extra likelihood of getting the thing
one does not want to want the thing unconditionally, but one does want the thing to turn into a different thing that one does want (e.g. Alicorn’s Mountain Dew example; there the thing one wants is to enjoy and want to drink Mountain Dew, which is not the same thing as wanting to want to drink Mountain Dew even though one does not enjoy it)
“wanting” here is some more informal human thing that isn’t captured by rational decision theory (which is bad!)
Are those all the possibilities?