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“You have desires. You also have desires about your desires: perhaps you desire cake but you also desire that you didn’t desire cake. You also have desires about the processes which produce your desires: perhaps you desire X and Y but only because of a weird evolutionary turn and you wish the processes which created your desires weren’t so far beyond your own control.” “But what should you do, when these different kinds of desires are in conflict with each other? If you could reflect upon and then rewrite your own desires, how should you choose to resolve those conflicts?” http://lesswrong.com/lw/epv/nozicks_proposed_rules_for_extrapolating_your/ Luke continues, “Nozick (1993) proposes 23 constraints on rational preferences, which one could also interpret as 23 constraints on the process of resolving conflicts among one’s preferences.” Luke reproduces part of the text, and I’m going to re-reproduce a bit too, for flavor: “IX. For no x and y does the person always prefer x to y when y i

(General content note: A lot of my thinking has really changed since the old days of this blog. There’s some weird, mean, and polemic stuff in there.) [New? Start here: https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com/articles/ ] Back in 2012 Luke Muehlhauser wrote: “ You have desires. You also have desires about your desires: perhaps you desire cake but you also desire that you didn’t desire cake. You also have desires about the processes which produce your desires: perhaps you desire X and Y but only because of a weird evolutionary turn and you wish the processes which created your desires weren&

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