Are (most all?) people "experts in their own lives" at getting their System 1 needs met, and only appear irrational or crazy from the outside when the observer's own craziness is of sufficiently different flavor? Or am I just rationalizing?
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S1 is a processing mode. What do you mean S1 need?
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Hmm yea... maybe something like what our sub-conscious survival mechanisms are acting on vs. what we think we want or can understand
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Example?
Mindless FOMO twittering?
Paleo-scarcity-wired brain binging salt-sugar-fat?
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Yes. Trying to try vs actually trying. TLP-style narcissism
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Then I’d say most people are actually frustrated in S1 needs, given the misalignment
Kinda like dumb animal suffering
Takes some S2 dosing to break out
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Ok, as in most people are often Pica-ing or something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(dis ? It seems often S2 doesn't break people out of these from "mere understanding" or information, but sometimes it does... wonder what's going on there
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I think being trapped in an S1 and/or S2 strange attractor a data problem, not a processing problem
Cf the chestnut tree in Sartre’s nausea. Sudden luminal realization that your map is wrong and you’re in GIGO. So you go to territory.
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So what is S2 role here, trying to navigate you to where you can find the data?
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I think you should drop the s1/s2 metaphor and think in terms of universal Turing machines and cellular automata
S1-s2 is too sloppy and neurospecific in a way that obscures the problem
Hmm ya. We are trying to reason about ecologies, after all. I do still find it curious that sometimes data immediately leads to behavior change and other times it takes repeated exposure. Habit as attractors -- glider guns in CA - of varying stability?
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