+1. That paragraph to me reads like: “Here’s a neat trick by which you can forcibly self-modify to care about fewer, simpler, easier-to-measure things! Yay!”
I agree with what you say here, as a general matter. I’m not sure I want to make an edit, as I really do think there are some “bad” parts of myself that I’d prefer to “expose and downweight,” but I agree that it’s easy to get carried away with that sort of thing.
+1. That paragraph to me reads like: “Here’s a neat trick by which you can forcibly self-modify to care about fewer, simpler, easier-to-measure things! Yay!”
I agree with what you say here, as a general matter. I’m not sure I want to make an edit, as I really do think there are some “bad” parts of myself that I’d prefer to “expose and downweight,” but I agree that it’s easy to get carried away with that sort of thing.
Cool. We are on the same page then. :) I also agree that there are some bad parts of myself I’d prefer to expose and downweight.