If you could have total control over your own goals/reward functions, would you? E.g., you have a hypothetical ability to reach inwards and change pretty precisely what makes you feel like you're getting what you want?
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Yes, but I’d want to build in an auto reset to return me to baseline at the end of each day to make sure I haven’t completely gone off the deep end.
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As a small child I learned that typing in *greedisgood99999" into StarCraft ruined the game so that's a no for me
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I would love to always be attracted to what I actually need instead of what I want right now...
SQUIRREL!!
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Kinda paradoxical when you think about it. I mean, you'd have to rely on your inner desires to determine what you want your desires to reflect; you're using your original desires to determine what you think your original desires ought to be; it's a chicken and egg scenario.
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It takes work but we can choose to parent ourselves in the way our parents never could.
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would be nice if i could do a little tweaking and adjusting and then abdicate the power..
like just a 5-10% increase in delayed gratification or work feeling rewarding would compound a long way
having that power forever would probably end pretty badly
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not really surprised but it is sort of interesting how much more popular than wireheading this is, it's not too hard to construct the frame where this is wireheading with a side of self enslavement
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nah, this would be reckless. we don't understand enough about our desires to edit them like that. for every 1 path that leads to a better place, 99 probably lead to severe depression and/or nihilism