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I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, s

I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. I would say it's the goals that are important, not the limited way in which I work out how to achieve them. It would certainly be horrifying if I were slowly tricked into giving up my goals and values, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening in this story. Perhaps if I were to put the earring on it would tell me it would be better for me to keep wearing it.

ToValueFunfetti 1y ago
You surrender your self in exchange for your goals. With the right goals, that could be a worthy sacrifice. But of course it is a sacrifice. Imagine doing a crossword while a voice whispers the correct letter to enter for each cell. You'd definitely finish it a lot faster and without making mistakes. Crossword answers are public knowledge, and people still work them out instead of looking them up. They don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here.
- kybernetikos 1y ago
  This is associating the self with the thing that decides how best to achieve goals (the earring / the part of your brain that works out how to achieve a goal), while I'm saying that I think I would associate the self much more with the thing that decides what the goals are. > they don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here. I think in this story, the earring would not solve the crossword for you, if for some reason your goal was to solve the crossword yourself.
naasking 1y ago
> I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. The goals you form depend on your values, and your values are formed by learning from trial and error by what you like and what you regret. If the earring removes all chance of regret, then you also remove all chance of learning and all possibility of forming values or meaningful goals. You effectively erase yourself, hence why the brains were atrophied.

ToValueFunfetti 1y ago

You surrender your self in exchange for your goals. With the right goals, that could be a worthy sacrifice. But of course it is a sacrifice. Imagine doing a crossword while a voice whispers the correct letter to enter for each cell. You'd definitely finish it a lot faster and without making mistakes. Crossword answers are public knowledge, and people still work them out instead of looking them up. They don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here.

kybernetikos 1y ago
This is associating the self with the thing that decides how best to achieve goals (the earring / the part of your brain that works out how to achieve a goal), while I'm saying that I think I would associate the self much more with the thing that decides what the goals are. > they don't just want to solve them; they want to solve them theirselves. That's what is lost here. I think in this story, the earring would not solve the crossword for you, if for some reason your goal was to solve the crossword yourself.

naasking 1y ago

> I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. The goals you form depend on your values, and your values are formed by learning from trial and error by what you like and what you regret. If the earring removes all chance of regret, then you also remove all chance of learning and all possibility of forming values or meaningful goals. You effectively erase yourself, hence why the brains were atrophied.