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Utopia (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is It Possible to Know What You Want?

It is possible to know what you want. He learned what he wanted through this reaction of being relieved that he was getting out of there Um, I think it's hard for me not to believe that in having that reaction. We often don't notice that because our stated motives are not achieved And we can explain our unhappiness with our situation by saying look This is what I want. I'm not getting it and that's why I'm unhappy. Then sometimes rarely we we do achieve and do we do get what we say we wantAnd then we find that we're not we're not happy when that's the key data point That reveals to us that we were wrong about what we wanted.

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