Thank you. Oddly, I am less altruistic than many EA/LWers. They routinely blow me away.
I can only maintain even that much altruism because I think there’s a very good chance that the future could be very, very good for a truly vast number of humans and conscious AGIs. I don’t think it’s that likely that we get a perpetual boot-on-face situation. I think only about 1% of humans are so sociopathic AND sadistic in combination that they wouldn’t eventually let their tiny sliver of empathy cause them to use their nearly-unlimited power to make life good for people. They wouldn’t risk giving up control, just share enough to be hailed as a benevolent hero instead of merely god-emperor for eternity.
I have done a little “metta” meditation to expand my circle of empathy. I think it makes me happy; I can “borrow joy”. The side effect is weird decisions like letting my family suffer so that more strangers can flourish in a future I probably won’t see.
Thank you. Oddly, I am less altruistic than many EA/LWers. They routinely blow me away.
I can only maintain even that much altruism because I think there’s a very good chance that the future could be very, very good for a truly vast number of humans and conscious AGIs. I don’t think it’s that likely that we get a perpetual boot-on-face situation. I think only about 1% of humans are so sociopathic AND sadistic in combination that they wouldn’t eventually let their tiny sliver of empathy cause them to use their nearly-unlimited power to make life good for people. They wouldn’t risk giving up control, just share enough to be hailed as a benevolent hero instead of merely god-emperor for eternity.
I have done a little “metta” meditation to expand my circle of empathy. I think it makes me happy; I can “borrow joy”. The side effect is weird decisions like letting my family suffer so that more strangers can flourish in a future I probably won’t see.