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by sandspar 355 days ago
It's a cute idea and well told! I think the general idea is that you have a "watching" self and a "deciding" self. Perhaps like different AI agents that check each other's work.

My favorite version of this is the guy who imagines a village of dwarves in his head. When he feels annoyed or angry or whatever, he imagines the "angry dwarf" making his case in front of the dwarf counsel. "We should strike back!" Then he imagines how the rest of the dwarven counsel would respond. "Ah, but this could be chance for us to practice compassion," says the compassionate dwarf. And so on. According to him he finds this very helpful.
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mettamage 355 days ago
I see my mind as a village. I owe a lot to my meditation self. He’s somewhat of a monk. Oh, and my inner dating coach. Then we have the strategist.

There are quite a few but a lot of power has gone to the strategist who developed the dating coach and meditation self back in the day.

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sandspar 355 days ago
That's really neat! I like how it's layered like that. It sounds helpful.
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mettamage 354 days ago
It is! It helps to explain my inner world. Internally I experience it all in one fluid thing as me. Personifying it like this makes certain things really apparent. It may also create some systemic biases when it comes to my self-narrative but so far I haven't seen that and/or that it'd work against me.
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jen729w 355 days ago
> Perhaps like different AI agents that check each other's work.

Or like I agents?

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