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27. Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.
I have the opposite experience - Discipline is external motivation that is forced on people by raising them, schooling them and training them in the army. It's driven by fear of not living up to expectations of others and disappears as soon as these others stop watching. Such a person is only productive in a team or with regular reporting.
On the contrary inner motivation won't disappear when someone isn't watching and is actually aligned with what makes you happy. It also updates in time... (read more)
Personal vs Global CEV could also be mentioned here.
Upon reading the ideal advisor theories paper an idea came to mind about how to protect CEV from Sobel's fourth objection where the ideal adviser recommends actions that would lead to death because it knows that its original self would want to commit suicide after seeing how inferior and hopeless their life is compared to a perfect self. If we limit the "better version of ourselves" to only have superior knowledge and skills and nothing that we couldn't obtain if we had enough time and resources, then it wouldn't view us as disabled or hopeless, only misinformed. Hence there would be a way out and the perfectly informed self would also know all the ways to improve the situation. So it wouldn't recommend mercy death, unless the original self already had suicidal tendencies. What a nice topic to discuss =P
What disturbs me in this article is the normativeness - describing values, rightness and goodness as something objective, having an objective boolean value, existing in the world without an observer to have those values, like some motivation without someone being motivated by it. Instead rightness and goodness are meaningless outside of some utility function, some desired end state that would label moving towards it as positive direction and against it as negative direction. Without a destination every direction is as good as every other. Values are always subjective, so when teaching them to an AI we can only refer to how common it is to regard value A as being positive or... (read 367 more words →)
One great tool for creating those warnings is Habitica - a free and ad-free productivity app for gamifying your own good and bad habits, regular and one-off tasks and self-rewards.