This is subject to the enormous, hard-to-emphasize-enough cognitive distortion that badly depressed people are terrible at constructing future contentment curves.
Although I don’t actually think getting reminded of the “dance of particles situation” does “further bum me out”. I’ve understood since I was a kid that values are subjective. It was the thought that my values might be somehow broken by hidden inconsistency that bugged me.
What I was fearing was, if the logic of your values can identify wireheading as “not something I actually want”, then what if that same logic actually extends to everything?
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Especially:
Although I don’t actually think getting reminded of the “dance of particles situation” does “further bum me out”. I’ve understood since I was a kid that values are subjective. It was the thought that my values might be somehow broken by hidden inconsistency that bugged me.
What I was fearing was, if the logic of your values can identify wireheading as “not something I actually want”, then what if that same logic actually extends to everything?