From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 12:28:20 MDT
On Monday 07 July 2003 18:14, Robin Hanson wrote:
> There is a key difference between wanting to want and wanting to believe
> that you want. I hypothesize that people want, and want to want, ignoble
> things, but that they want others to believe that they want, and want to
> want, noble things. Therefore they do not want to believe that they want,
> and want to want, ignoble things.
Please clarify what you believe these "ignoble" things are that you
hypothesize people "really" want regardless of what they say.
>
> Self-alteration is primarily only at the service of things you want
> (including things you want to want). So if people really want to be
> ignoble, then self-alteration will only make them more so.
>
Why would you put the supposedly distinct things people want above what they
want to want which presumably include their "higher" or less "ignoble"
aspirations? Why would self-modification more likely server what you
believe is the base reality?
- samantha
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