I expect that many humans will continue to participate in a process of collectively clarifying what we want and how to govern the universe. I wouldn’t be surprised if that involves a lot of life-kind-of-like-normal that gradually improves in a cautious way we endorse rather than some kind of table-flip (e.g. I would honestly not be surprised if post-singularity we still end up raising another generation because there’s no other form of “delegation” that we feel more confident about). And of course in such a world I expect to just continue to spend a lot of time thinking, again probably under conditions that are designed to be gradually improving rather than abruptly changing. The main weird thing is that this process will now be almost completely decoupled from productive economic activity.
I think it’s hard to talk about “your life” and identity is likely to be fuzzy over the long term. I don’t think that most of the richness and value in the world will come from creatures who feel like “us” (and I think our selfish desires are mostly relatively satiable). That said, I do also expect that basically all of the existing humans will have a future that they feel excited about (and which is recognizably “theirs”) because it’s very cheap to arrange and many of us care a lot about that.
I have no idea what that “after retirement” life would look like. As a lower bound, I enjoy playing and making games a lot, as well as great movies and crazy intricate interactive narratives that will be possible in that future. I might end up spending some time on that kind of thing. I might do a bunch of things analogous to drugs and wireheading, might have a lot of crazy and deeply meaningful romantic and personal relationships (and maybe a lot of great sex), might be part of some giant satisfying collaborative projects. I might end up trying to have many deeper experiences and appreciate my place in the world in some kind of deep meaningful way that some people seem to get a lot out of but I mostly don’t. But frankly, I don’t really expect any of those things to happen much because I expect we’ll mostly think of better of things to do.
I sometimes talk about addressing a lot of my uncertainty about the world, e.g. learning about what actually happened in our history or getting the right answer to all the questions about the modern world that bug me. I can imagine going through the play-by-play of the decisions in my life with some much wiser minds and learning about what I did well or poorly. Similarly it would be fun to have some nice retrospective parties where I talk with people from my life about what it was like and look back on everything as we gradually become wiser together, just like you’d review a game after the fact. But again, don’t really think it’s going to be worth it given that we’ll think of better things to do.
Not really.
I expect that many humans will continue to participate in a process of collectively clarifying what we want and how to govern the universe. I wouldn’t be surprised if that involves a lot of life-kind-of-like-normal that gradually improves in a cautious way we endorse rather than some kind of table-flip (e.g. I would honestly not be surprised if post-singularity we still end up raising another generation because there’s no other form of “delegation” that we feel more confident about). And of course in such a world I expect to just continue to spend a lot of time thinking, again probably under conditions that are designed to be gradually improving rather than abruptly changing. The main weird thing is that this process will now be almost completely decoupled from productive economic activity.
I think it’s hard to talk about “your life” and identity is likely to be fuzzy over the long term. I don’t think that most of the richness and value in the world will come from creatures who feel like “us” (and I think our selfish desires are mostly relatively satiable). That said, I do also expect that basically all of the existing humans will have a future that they feel excited about (and which is recognizably “theirs”) because it’s very cheap to arrange and many of us care a lot about that.
I have no idea what that “after retirement” life would look like. As a lower bound, I enjoy playing and making games a lot, as well as great movies and crazy intricate interactive narratives that will be possible in that future. I might end up spending some time on that kind of thing. I might do a bunch of things analogous to drugs and wireheading, might have a lot of crazy and deeply meaningful romantic and personal relationships (and maybe a lot of great sex), might be part of some giant satisfying collaborative projects. I might end up trying to have many deeper experiences and appreciate my place in the world in some kind of deep meaningful way that some people seem to get a lot out of but I mostly don’t. But frankly, I don’t really expect any of those things to happen much because I expect we’ll mostly think of better of things to do.
I sometimes talk about addressing a lot of my uncertainty about the world, e.g. learning about what actually happened in our history or getting the right answer to all the questions about the modern world that bug me. I can imagine going through the play-by-play of the decisions in my life with some much wiser minds and learning about what I did well or poorly. Similarly it would be fun to have some nice retrospective parties where I talk with people from my life about what it was like and look back on everything as we gradually become wiser together, just like you’d review a game after the fact. But again, don’t really think it’s going to be worth it given that we’ll think of better things to do.