Thank you for writing this up. Would you be willing to share what your household’s (you make it sound like a group of > 2 adults making decisions as peers) stated group goals were around December 2019, March 2020, and December 2020? Your post sounds to me like it describes the experience of falling onto several nested loops of optimizing for a proxy or aspect of a goal rather than the goal itself. (Microcovid measurement and isolation as proxy for avoiding contracting or spreading a pathogen, absolute minimization of exposure chance as proxy for general health and well-being, etc) This makes me wonder what kind of house agreement or instantiation of “let’s keep everyone safe and healthy” type goals could have been sufficient to catch a rationalist in this type of spiral earlier
Thank you for writing this up. Would you be willing to share what your household’s (you make it sound like a group of > 2 adults making decisions as peers) stated group goals were around December 2019, March 2020, and December 2020? Your post sounds to me like it describes the experience of falling onto several nested loops of optimizing for a proxy or aspect of a goal rather than the goal itself. (Microcovid measurement and isolation as proxy for avoiding contracting or spreading a pathogen, absolute minimization of exposure chance as proxy for general health and well-being, etc) This makes me wonder what kind of house agreement or instantiation of “let’s keep everyone safe and healthy” type goals could have been sufficient to catch a rationalist in this type of spiral earlier