Heh, I think this is the opposite of our respective roles in our previous conversation about trauma. (Where you were like “I tend to think of trauma as things that happened in the past that led to stuck memories that are strongly immune to updating.” and I was like “that seems different enough from standard usage you should probably find a new word?)
So, I’m pretty open to the “regret is different enough for most people than how I’m describing it that I should have a new word.” But, I also personally have thought of regret as fairly straightforwardly matching the way I described it. I don’t feel like I did much rationality-reimagining to end up with my description above. (i.e. most people might not say ‘the point of regret is to learn things for the future’, but I do think it sort of straightforwardly describes how people are using it’)
Heh, I think this is the opposite of our respective roles in our previous conversation about trauma. (Where you were like “I tend to think of trauma as things that happened in the past that led to stuck memories that are strongly immune to updating.” and I was like “that seems different enough from standard usage you should probably find a new word?)
So, I’m pretty open to the “regret is different enough for most people than how I’m describing it that I should have a new word.” But, I also personally have thought of regret as fairly straightforwardly matching the way I described it. I don’t feel like I did much rationality-reimagining to end up with my description above. (i.e. most people might not say ‘the point of regret is to learn things for the future’, but I do think it sort of straightforwardly describes how people are using it’)