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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About This Guide
About the Authors: Simone & Malcolm Collins
Why Bother?
Step 1 Define Your Objective Function
Why Do I Need to Think Through an Objective Function?
What Has Inherent Value?
Nothing has Intrinsic Value
Something Has Innate Intrinsic Value
Positive Personal Emotions
Distributed Positive Emotions
Limiting Extreme Negative Emotions
Freedom / Liberty / Self Determination
Immortality / Continued Existence
Your Purpose
To Have an Impact on History
Fairness/Equality
Personal Improvement
The Struggle
Art and Inspiring Others
Experience Maximization
Protect And Promote The Growth Of Human Civilization
Accumulation of Knowledge as a Species
Nature and Biodiversity
The Continuation of the Universe
Maximizing Lucidity / Enlightenment
Value Uncertainty
The Search
Covering Your Bases
Focus on What Society Says is Good
Focus on Personal Proclivities
Religious Intrinsic Values
Hard Religious Belief Systems
Soft Religious Belief Systems
Personal Religious Belief Systems
Personalized Hard Religious Systems
Self-Image-Based Belief Systems
Proclivities
Step 1 Wrap Up
Step 2 Develop Your Ideological Tree
Ideologies and Objective Functions
Standards for Evidence
Building the Base of your Ideological Tree
Ideological Trees Require Regular Pruning
Ideologies that Require Careful Scrutiny
Leveraging Social Interaction To Better Think Through Your Ideology
Step 3 Define Your Internal Character
How To Turn Off Autopilot And Create Your Identity
Leveraging Moments of Lucidity
Leveraging Flux Periods
An Autopilot-Altering Case Study
Arguments Against Choosing a Self-Image
What Builds Our Self-images if We Do Not?
What Forces Built Your Present Self-image?
How We Process Emotions
Optimizing for Remembered Experiences
How Self-images Affect Our Perception
Self-image Creation and Hygiene
Avoid Allowing Your Self-Image-Powered Autopilot to Make Major Decisions
How to Change
Thought Experiments
But it’s Not That Simple
Step 4 Define Your Public Character
Why Have Differing Public and Internal Characters?
But I’m a Social Chameleon!
Creating an Easily-Digestible Public Identity
Outlining your Public Persona
The Importance of Flaws Outline Your Final Public
Persona Carefully
Intentionally Managing your Social Network
Types of Friends
We Sincerely Hope This Has Been Helpful
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