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Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have. We call it an "Ugh"ugh field". The Ughugh field forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization.
Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have. We call it an "Ugh Field"field". The Ugh Fieldfield forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization.
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Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have, we call it an "Ugh Field"1. The Ugh Field forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization, imposing huge costs.
CFAR's 2019 workshop participant handbook defines an aversion as
Aversion factoring is goal factoring for aversions: trying to understand why you're averse to a particular thing by decomposing it into underlying preferences and experiences.
Ugh fields
Aversions make us less likely to engage in "activities," and as Scott Alexander's (2011) Physical and Mental Behavior notes, this includes mental as well as physical activities. Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have.
We call it an "ugh field". TheWriting in 2010, Roko introduced the term ugh field to refer to this problem:
The ugh field forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization.
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Ugh fieldsby RokoSee alsoRelated pagesCuriosity stopperCompartmentalizationMotivated cognitionExperiential Avoidance