Often thinks about where they are on the experience curve for everything they do, and takes action on that when appropriate,
Maintains a habit of doing stuff now and visualizing those opportunity costs,
Puts themselves in a stimulating environment like the bay area intellectual community and surrounds themselves with stimulating people and events,
Seeks out the hardest character-building experiences like getting tear gassed in a trench or building a company from scratch,
This is a subset of the more general:
.1. Think carefully about the general issue of how you want to spend your time.
(By, for example, making a plan to move the way you currently live your life closer towards the way you want it to be, including ways of changing things about yourself, such as your habits or values, that will be needed in order to ensure that you actually carry the plan out.)
.2. Decide what importance level making those changes has for you, and then track your progress to see that you are actually spending an effort upon carrying out the plan that is proportionate to that importance (ie compensate for distortion caused by immediacy, and other cognitive biases)
That has been made specific to the goal of wanting to spend much of your time accruing personal experience in an efficient manner.
I’m not sure the goal is a well stated one. When you think of a 1000 year old vampire, are you envying the amount of varied information he knows, the skill set he has acquired, the things he has achieved or the self-knowledge and ‘wisdom’ he has acquired? All these things may be linked to “experience”, but if you only want experience in order to gain some of those things, setting the goal in more precise terms might lead to slightly different tactics of acquiring it being indicated.
When I think of a 1000 year old vampire (in relevant ways), I think of the fact that he is not subject to some of the constraints that us mere mortals are subject to. You can give us mere humans advice about how to better live within those constraints, but that seems to me to miss the spirt of the difference.
In fact, the whole argument “you can be like a 1000 year old vampire” seems to amount to “life extension isn’t all that great. You can do as well without it as you can with it. If you live your life properly, you have no need to live longer”. I think that in any other context, people here would recognize that that is a pro-death position and should be fought.
In fact, the whole argument “you can be like a 1000 year old vampire” seems to amount to “life extension isn’t all that great. You can do as well without it as you can with it. If you live your life properly, you have no need to live longer”. I think that in any other context, people here would recognize that that is a pro-death position and should be fought.
WTF? Where did you get that? If our standard of charity says that is what OP says, it paraphrases your comment as “We don’t have real life extension, so we shouldn’t even try to live better because it doesn’t solve the main problem”. You didn’t really mean that, though. Maybe you think I should have paid more lip service to the glory of real life extension? If so, buzz off; I had no need of that hypothesis.
Obviously both are wrong: we should try to live better and achieve life extension.
Often thinks about where they are on the experience curve for everything they do, and takes action on that when appropriate,
Maintains a habit of doing stuff now and visualizing those opportunity costs,
Puts themselves in a stimulating environment like the bay area intellectual community and surrounds themselves with stimulating people and events,
Seeks out the hardest character-building experiences like getting tear gassed in a trench or building a company from scratch,
This is a subset of the more general:
.1. Think carefully about the general issue of how you want to spend your time.
(By, for example, making a plan to move the way you currently live your life closer towards the way you want it to be, including ways of changing things about yourself, such as your habits or values, that will be needed in order to ensure that you actually carry the plan out.)
.2. Decide what importance level making those changes has for you, and then track your progress to see that you are actually spending an effort upon carrying out the plan that is proportionate to that importance (ie compensate for distortion caused by immediacy, and other cognitive biases)
That has been made specific to the goal of wanting to spend much of your time accruing personal experience in an efficient manner.
I’m not sure the goal is a well stated one. When you think of a 1000 year old vampire, are you envying the amount of varied information he knows, the skill set he has acquired, the things he has achieved or the self-knowledge and ‘wisdom’ he has acquired? All these things may be linked to “experience”, but if you only want experience in order to gain some of those things, setting the goal in more precise terms might lead to slightly different tactics of acquiring it being indicated.
When I think of a 1000 year old vampire (in relevant ways), I think of the fact that he is not subject to some of the constraints that us mere mortals are subject to. You can give us mere humans advice about how to better live within those constraints, but that seems to me to miss the spirt of the difference.
In fact, the whole argument “you can be like a 1000 year old vampire” seems to amount to “life extension isn’t all that great. You can do as well without it as you can with it. If you live your life properly, you have no need to live longer”. I think that in any other context, people here would recognize that that is a pro-death position and should be fought.
Would you similarly interpret an article about how to spend less money for the things I want to buy as opposing earning more money?
WTF? Where did you get that? If our standard of charity says that is what OP says, it paraphrases your comment as “We don’t have real life extension, so we shouldn’t even try to live better because it doesn’t solve the main problem”. You didn’t really mean that, though. Maybe you think I should have paid more lip service to the glory of real life extension? If so, buzz off; I had no need of that hypothesis.
Obviously both are wrong: we should try to live better and achieve life extension.