Conflicts between emotional schemas often involve internal coercion — LessWrong

In my previous post, I wrote that self-reinforcing feedback loops in our brains remind me of the common political strategy of blaming all failures of…

x Conflicts between emotional schemas often involve internal coercion — LessWrong Replacing fear Emotions Rationality Frontpage 49 Conflicts between emotional schemas often involve internal coercion by Richard_Ngo 17th May 2023 5 min read 4 49 In my previous post, I wrote that self-reinforcing feedback loops in our brains remind me of the common political strategy of blaming all failures of your policies on the fact that you didn’t have enough power to implement them comprehensively enough. I don’t think this similarity is a coincidence at all—instead, it's a consequence of the fact that one o

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