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It's often underappreciated how _hard_ it can be to tell why you want something. I've spent weeks thinking as rationally as I could about a decision, and with
by sirdavidof 5y ago
It's often underappreciated how _hard_ it can be to tell why you want something.
I've spent weeks thinking as rationally as I could about a decision, and with years of hindsight realised it was based mainly on what others wanted.
If anyone feels they've solved this, I'd love to hear how.
- elcritch 5y agoIt is hard.. My take is that you can't solve it, and shouldn't try to as it's effectively impossible. It's better to accept our minds nature and that we postfacto rationalize 99% of our decisions rather than rationally decide them. Instead accept it, and use that 1% that we do rationally decide to influence how you want the rest, including ambitions or emotional desires, to be over time. I mean, we're all basically toddlers on an emotional level, but with more sophisticated wrappings.
- trevyn 5y agoYou are a program optimized to increase human biomass. That’s literally all that’s happening.
- alok-g 5y agoI feel I have, however, you may be able to prove me wrong. :-) I propose having a conversation on the subject. :-) Email in my profile. Pls. reach out if you would like to. Thanks.