I’m honestly curious, how did you condition yourself to feel this way?
I mean, I think about the singularity, try to discount for my given bias (introverted young male in STEM field who read a lot of scifi) and I still conclude it is a worthwhile problem; but more importantly a problem that could use my skillset.
But I don’t emotionally … grok it, which makes me wonder if I really do believe it, or if it is belief-in-belief. I’m having my own struggle with ambition, and I’m at a point where I don’t know if I actually care about anything. It seems that at my core, all my motivation stems from a desire for social status, which scares me.
But contra Robin, the implication is not “humans only care about status, and so we pretend hypocritically to care about our own survival while really basically just caring about status”, the implication is “humans are pretty inept at acquiring urges to do the steps that will fulfill our later urges. We are also pretty inept at doing any steps we do not have a direct urge for. Thus, urges to e.g. survive, or live in a clean and pleasant house, or do anything else that requires many substeps… are often pretty powerless, unless accompanied by some kind of structure that can create immediate rewards for individual steps.
(People rarely exhibit long-term planning to acquire social status any more than we/they exhibit long-term planning to acquire health. E.g., most unhappily single folk do not systematically practice their social skills unless this is encouraged by their local social environment.)
Dunno. I seem to have had very powerful innate self modification capabilities in the past. Either I’ve lost them, or they are inaccessible to introspection in some very weird way.
The style of it is “brute, clichéd brainwashing”, I literally can’t imagine caring about anything else and it’s not very good for my mental helth.
I’m honestly curious, how did you condition yourself to feel this way?
I mean, I think about the singularity, try to discount for my given bias (introverted young male in STEM field who read a lot of scifi) and I still conclude it is a worthwhile problem; but more importantly a problem that could use my skillset.
But I don’t emotionally … grok it, which makes me wonder if I really do believe it, or if it is belief-in-belief. I’m having my own struggle with ambition, and I’m at a point where I don’t know if I actually care about anything. It seems that at my core, all my motivation stems from a desire for social status, which scares me.
See here and the OP (emphasis added):
(People rarely exhibit long-term planning to acquire social status any more than we/they exhibit long-term planning to acquire health. E.g., most unhappily single folk do not systematically practice their social skills unless this is encouraged by their local social environment.)
Dunno. I seem to have had very powerful innate self modification capabilities in the past. Either I’ve lost them, or they are inaccessible to introspection in some very weird way.
The style of it is “brute, clichéd brainwashing”, I literally can’t imagine caring about anything else and it’s not very good for my mental helth.