Don't steer with guilt - LessWrong

I've spoken at length about shifting guilt or dispelling guilt. What I haven't talked about, yet, is guilt itself. • So let's talk about guilt. …

x Don't steer with guilt — LessWrong Replacing Guilt Practical World Optimization Frontpage 29 Don't steer with guilt by So8res 12th Jul 2015 5 min read 0 29 I've spoken at length about shifting guilt or dispelling guilt. What I haven't talked about, yet, is guilt itself. So let's talk about guilt. Guilt is one of those strange tools that works by not occurring. You place guilt on the branches of possibility that you don't want to happen, and then, if all goes well, those futures don't occur. Guilt is supposed to steer the future towards non-guilty futures; it's never supposed to be instantiat

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