My vague notion is that if your goals don’t have ramifications in the realm of the normal, you’re doing it wrong. If they do, and some aspect of your map upon which goals depend gets altered in a way that invalidates some of your goals, you can still look at the normal-realm ramifications and try to figure out if they are still things you want, and if so, what your goals are now in the new part of your map.
Keep in mind that your “map” here is not one fixed notion about the way the world works. It’s a probability distribution over all the ways the world could work that are consistent with your knowledge and experience. In particular, if you’re not sure whether “patternists” (whatever those are) are correct or not, this is a fact about your map that you can start coping with right now.
It might be that the Dark Lords of the Matrix are just messing with you, but really, the unknown unknowns would have to be quite extreme to totally upend your goal system.
My vague notion is that if your goals don’t have ramifications in the realm of the normal, you’re doing it wrong. If they do, and some aspect of your map upon which goals depend gets altered in a way that invalidates some of your goals, you can still look at the normal-realm ramifications and try to figure out if they are still things you want, and if so, what your goals are now in the new part of your map.
Keep in mind that your “map” here is not one fixed notion about the way the world works. It’s a probability distribution over all the ways the world could work that are consistent with your knowledge and experience. In particular, if you’re not sure whether “patternists” (whatever those are) are correct or not, this is a fact about your map that you can start coping with right now.
It might be that the Dark Lords of the Matrix are just messing with you, but really, the unknown unknowns would have to be quite extreme to totally upend your goal system.