I had certailny been influenced by my father, who, after my parents divorced, told me to have my own goal of life. However, I wanted to have a truly good one, not an evil one. It caused me to search for precise definition of “universal good,”—a precise criterion for deciding, what action is universally good and what action is not.
I know Bayes theorem now, such a wonder! But when I was a kid, I had not such a romantic and beautiful event as Elizer had, so I came up with a different criterion. The best is to let the world exist, and the worst is to destroy the world. The “world” here refers to the universe as a whole, as well as the universe as every no matter how small its part.
Ever since I came up with this criterion, this thought didn’t seem to lose its importance. In fact, I made this idealistic motto “let everything exist,” which is the extropic side of this criterion.
I would say, it helped me to overcome great difficulties of life. I guess, I’m not alone, in fact, one of the posters here, Wei Dai, has a mailing list about the very idea that “that all possible universes exist” ( http://www.weidai.com/everything.html ).
I had certailny been influenced by my father, who, after my parents divorced, told me to have my own goal of life. However, I wanted to have a truly good one, not an evil one. It caused me to search for precise definition of “universal good,”—a precise criterion for deciding, what action is universally good and what action is not.
I know Bayes theorem now, such a wonder! But when I was a kid, I had not such a romantic and beautiful event as Elizer had, so I came up with a different criterion. The best is to let the world exist, and the worst is to destroy the world. The “world” here refers to the universe as a whole, as well as the universe as every no matter how small its part.
Ever since I came up with this criterion, this thought didn’t seem to lose its importance. In fact, I made this idealistic motto “let everything exist,” which is the extropic side of this criterion.
I would say, it helped me to overcome great difficulties of life. I guess, I’m not alone, in fact, one of the posters here, Wei Dai, has a mailing list about the very idea that “that all possible universes exist” ( http://www.weidai.com/everything.html ).