A great description, funny how it applies to other emotional acts such as cheating on your spouse (increase reproductive chances while risking comfort of family life). It might be enlightening to think of some emotions as optimizations for the very long term—for you and all your descendants (makes sense as emotions were created by evolution) - and the rational mind as optimizing for the short to medium term..
I’d describe that as a situation where your long-term interests and your very-short-term interests gang up on your short- to medium-term interests.
A great description, funny how it applies to other emotional acts such as cheating on your spouse (increase reproductive chances while risking comfort of family life). It might be enlightening to think of some emotions as optimizations for the very long term—for you and all your descendants (makes sense as emotions were created by evolution) - and the rational mind as optimizing for the short to medium term..
It doesn’t optimize for “you”, it optimizes for the gene that increases the chance of cheating. The “future” has very little “you”.