Try reading Hoffer’s “The True Believer” to gain insight into how elements of singularity thinking can be really poisonous to your mental wellbeing. There’s more and less healthy ways to think about and approach the future.
I’m sure some people find some of these ideas distressing or depressing, whether or not they actually accept them as true in whole or in part. I would say I do, in a qualified way. But I have decent perspective on the whole singularity/LessWrong/FAI/etc/etc memeplex.
Try reading Hoffer’s “The True Believer” to gain insight into how elements of singularity thinking can be really poisonous to your mental wellbeing. There’s more and less healthy ways to think about and approach the future.
I was wondering if it’s a problem for anyone. It’s not for me.
I’m sure some people find some of these ideas distressing or depressing, whether or not they actually accept them as true in whole or in part. I would say I do, in a qualified way. But I have decent perspective on the whole singularity/LessWrong/FAI/etc/etc memeplex.