How do you define/measure “weird” (and strength of “want”, for that matter)? There are VERY strong selection effects against the vast majority of human-action space. I’d argue that almost zero human behavior is all that weird in an absolute sense, though with enough dimensions of difference, almost all behaviors are weird in a relative sense. Sexual or sensual preferences are diverse, but all in a pretty small portion of desire-space, so I don’t consider them weird.
To try to give a concrete answer, I’d say suicide by an otherwise-healthy human is the weirdest desire I know of. Much more common, but equally weird in terms of mapping to a rational goal framework, is consumption of alcohol and non-zootropic drugs.
How do you define/measure “weird” (and strength of “want”, for that matter)?
I don’t have anything more concrete than “seemingly not in the category of things humans tend to intrinsically want”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To try to give a concrete answer, I’d say suicide by an otherwise-healthy human is the weirdest desire I know of.
Yeah, that’s a good example and brought to my mind obvious-in-retrospect [body integrity dysphoria]/xenomelia where (otherwise seemingly psychologically normal?) people want to get rid of some part of their body. (I haven’t looked into it that much but AFAIR it’s probably something going somewhat precisely wrong with the body schema?)
How do you define/measure “weird” (and strength of “want”, for that matter)? There are VERY strong selection effects against the vast majority of human-action space. I’d argue that almost zero human behavior is all that weird in an absolute sense, though with enough dimensions of difference, almost all behaviors are weird in a relative sense. Sexual or sensual preferences are diverse, but all in a pretty small portion of desire-space, so I don’t consider them weird.
To try to give a concrete answer, I’d say suicide by an otherwise-healthy human is the weirdest desire I know of. Much more common, but equally weird in terms of mapping to a rational goal framework, is consumption of alcohol and non-zootropic drugs.
I don’t have anything more concrete than “seemingly not in the category of things humans tend to intrinsically want”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, that’s a good example and brought to my mind obvious-in-retrospect [body integrity dysphoria]/xenomelia where (otherwise seemingly psychologically normal?) people want to get rid of some part of their body. (I haven’t looked into it that much but AFAIR it’s probably something going somewhat precisely wrong with the body schema?)