"You deserve newborn love" is an uplifting statement. "You NEED to care of your ELEPHANT" sends strong "hey emotions, fuck you, just shut up already" signal
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also implicitly identifies the self with the rider rather than the elephant! that never sat well with me
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I strongly identified with rational parts, rider, system 1, etc, then realized I am doing something wrong
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one of the many funny bits about this for me is i think it’s common for rationalists to believe that system 2 or whatever has goals and desires that are in conflict with system 1’s
this is not at all how it works imo. system 2 is not capable of wanting anything
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I don’t think System 2 is exactly real.
I’m pretty sure I sometimes have an authentic (not socially imposed) drive to make sense of things, organize things, fiddle with things till they fit, etc. and that can include formal abstractions.
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yeah, at some point “system 1” and “system 2” are just not very useful categories. i agree that these are real drives and if i had to i’d shove them into “system 1” but i’m not at all married to this