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Are You Making a Fundamental Category Error in What You Really Want?
There was two different things that seemed on the surface very similar but they had very different focuses so that was one of the paths here and that was like one of the convergent things that made me recognize this. Then I got into other conversations where people were like you know somebody said they wanted an end state and people were like you're just confused what you actually care about is how you feel. If you had a magic pill that could make you feel good and get rid of all of these worries you had about the state of the world then you would want that, he says. The mind sort of tries to find a set of beliefs that makes it think that it can reach its fundamental