I’m a little concerned about the topic; self-sacrifice seems to be a tempting thing to signal sometimes in conversations, but to have bad consequences on peoples’ longer-term psychology if they do. What did you think of Luke’s “How to avoid failure modes in thinking about goals” (or something similar to that) session at minicamp?
Will that or similar content be presented?
(For those who weren’t there: the session was aimed at avoiding fanaticism and similar failure modes, partly by thinking about oneself as a coalition and being open to trades between different motives, and partly by noticing the difficulties with many standard simple-sounding moral theories, including simple aggregative utilitarianism.)
Hi Anna. I’m not out to preach self-sacrifice. Speaking of ‘avoiding failure modes,’ I currently have 0 ‘yes’ rsvps and 3 ‘no’ rsvps. Non-attendance seems to be a graver source of risk to the San Francisco meetups than poorly presented topics. That said, if you or Luke send me the notes, I’ll be sure to review them just in case anyone shows up.
I’m a little concerned about the topic; self-sacrifice seems to be a tempting thing to signal sometimes in conversations, but to have bad consequences on peoples’ longer-term psychology if they do. What did you think of Luke’s “How to avoid failure modes in thinking about goals” (or something similar to that) session at minicamp?
Will that or similar content be presented?
(For those who weren’t there: the session was aimed at avoiding fanaticism and similar failure modes, partly by thinking about oneself as a coalition and being open to trades between different motives, and partly by noticing the difficulties with many standard simple-sounding moral theories, including simple aggregative utilitarianism.)
Hi Anna. I’m not out to preach self-sacrifice. Speaking of ‘avoiding failure modes,’ I currently have 0 ‘yes’ rsvps and 3 ‘no’ rsvps. Non-attendance seems to be a graver source of risk to the San Francisco meetups than poorly presented topics. That said, if you or Luke send me the notes, I’ll be sure to review them just in case anyone shows up.