Sounds like we’re finally getting somewhere. Maybe.
I have no way to store calculated probabilities other than as emotional anticipations. Not even the logistical nightmare of writing them down, since they are not introspectively available as numbers and I also have trouble with expressing myself linearly.
I can see how reframing could work for the particular example of game like tasks, however I can’t find similar workaround for the problems I’m facing and even if I could I don’t have the skill to reframe and self modify with sufficient reliability.
One thing that seems like it’s relevant here is that I seem to mainly practice rationality indirectly, by changing the general heuristics, and usually don’t have direct access to the data I’m operating on nor the ability to practice rationality in realtime.
… that last paragraph somehow became more of an analogy because I cant explain it well. Whatever, just don’t take it to literally.
I can see how reframing could work for the particular example of game like tasks, however I can’t find similar workaround for the problems I’m facing and even if I could I don’t have the skill to reframe and self modify with sufficient reliability.
I asked a girl out today shortly after having a conversation with her. She said no and I was crushed. Within five seconds I had reframed as “Woo, I made a move! In daytime in a non-pub environment! Progress on flirting!”
My apologies if the response is flip but I suggest going from “I did the right thing, woo!” to “I made the optimal action given my knowledge, that’s kinda awesome, innit?”
that’s still the same class of problem: “screwed over by circumstances beyond reasonable control”. Stretching it to full generality, “I made the optimal decision given my knowledge, intelligence, rationality, willpower, state of mind, and character flaws”, only makes the framing WORSE because you remember how many things you suck at.
Sounds like we’re finally getting somewhere. Maybe.
I have no way to store calculated probabilities other than as emotional anticipations. Not even the logistical nightmare of writing them down, since they are not introspectively available as numbers and I also have trouble with expressing myself linearly.
I can see how reframing could work for the particular example of game like tasks, however I can’t find similar workaround for the problems I’m facing and even if I could I don’t have the skill to reframe and self modify with sufficient reliability.
One thing that seems like it’s relevant here is that I seem to mainly practice rationality indirectly, by changing the general heuristics, and usually don’t have direct access to the data I’m operating on nor the ability to practice rationality in realtime.
… that last paragraph somehow became more of an analogy because I cant explain it well. Whatever, just don’t take it to literally.
I asked a girl out today shortly after having a conversation with her. She said no and I was crushed. Within five seconds I had reframed as “Woo, I made a move! In daytime in a non-pub environment! Progress on flirting!”
My apologies if the response is flip but I suggest going from “I did the right thing, woo!” to “I made the optimal action given my knowledge, that’s kinda awesome, innit?”
that’s still the same class of problem: “screwed over by circumstances beyond reasonable control”. Stretching it to full generality, “I made the optimal decision given my knowledge, intelligence, rationality, willpower, state of mind, and character flaws”, only makes the framing WORSE because you remember how many things you suck at.