Random: Maybe current lesswrong readers would like this post? It's been 5 years, maybe there's a way to re-post it
When did you last use it?
Thanks for writing this!
1I’ve only encountered a handful out of a few hundred teenagers and adults who really had a deep sense of what it means for emotions to “make sense.”
How would you make sense of the emotion of doubting the value of other emotions?
This is the point in the class where I ask participants to pick an emotion, any emotion, that they feel is bad, or wish they didn’t have, or think the world would be better off without, and spend 3 minutes trying to generate the reason it exists, and might be worth having after all.
For anyone who wants to check how they did on this, you can copy this whole post into AI (I recommend o3 or Claude 4 Opus with extended reasoning on) and ask it to be the author of the post without immediately giving answers
Thank you for writing this! I will be linking to this
What came of this?
Related: What does davidad want from «boundaries»?
(also the broader work on boundaries for formalizing safety/autonomy, also the deontic sufficiency hypothesis)
Mindreading is ubiquitous