💡 **“最小努力”策略的核心理念**：借鉴政治领域中“Expevolu”提出的不破坏现有权力结构，而是创造一个重叠的新层来逐步实现变革的思路，作者将其应用于个人成长。这种方法的核心在于避免直接对抗内心的固有模式，而是通过引入新的兴趣和视角，间接引导认知和行为的调整。

🧠 **个人内部的“权力结构”与认知挑战**：文章将个人内部的思维模式比作政治系统的“联盟政府”，存在相互冲突的利益和“权力结构”。作者意识到，个体的自我改进面临的挑战在于，如何在一个“被编程”数千年的系统内实现有意义的改变，以及如何有效地映射和管理这些抽象的内心利益，以实现认知资源的重新分配。

🔄 **创造新层以实现温和重组**：作者提出的具体实践是，承认并欣赏现有的内部模式（“权力结构”），同时建立一个不排斥旧有的新兴趣层。这种“不与自己战斗”的方式，为重新评估和资源再分配提供了机会，旨在实现一种更加平和、可持续的个人重塑过程。

❓ **社区互动与未来探索**：文章最后抛出了一个问题，询问社区是否有兴趣进一步发展这一类比，并分享将抽象内心利益映射到实际认知资源再分配的具体过程。这表明作者希望通过社区的反馈和参与，共同探索和完善这种创新的个人成长方法。

Published on November 3, 2025 7:09 PM GMT

"Even when probabilities are low, act as if your actions matter in terms of expected value. Because even when you lose, you can be aligned." (MacAskill)

I've been posting on LessWrong about self-improvement and I notice something: some similarities between the problems political systems face when trying to change also appear in me. Because my neurons sometimes seem to have their own coalition government, and they don't agree with each other. How do I improve myself if I was programmed for thousands of years to be this way?

Expevolu: a minimum energy strategy

It's not really my expertise but, I saw a proposal here called Expevolu for political systems: instead of destroying existing power structures (which encounter extremely high resistance),that create a new overlapping layer of power that gradually redistributes without eliminating the previous one. (It's the equivalent of the "law of least effort" but at a geopolitical level. My lazy self is fascinated! Not because I consider the author a great friend.)

The personal application

I'm experimenting with similar ideas: I recognize and appreciate my current patterns (my internal "power structures"), and create a new layer of interests without rejecting the old ones. I don't fight against myself - I simply give a chance for reevaluation and resource redistribution.

The challenges

Mapping abstract interests in my brain might be more difficult than redistributing power among people on a political map. But the principle seems transferable, and I've been working on how to map those interests - let's say ancestral ones and current ones - to have a clearer picture of cognitive resource redistribution.

And what is the best way to gain traction for a peaceful restructuring?

My question to the community: Is there interest in me developing this analogy further and sharing the concrete process?