Duncan, I am skeptical that you fully and deeply believe we are so doomed as you claim. So here’s a test: Make a contract with someone Good to give them all your assets* and become an minimally paid permanent laborer for them, in the case that foom/doom does not occur in your expected timeframes. One of two things will now happen: 1) You will hesitate to do this, which proves you are not so sure and some part of you is being a boogeyman. You outed him! Congrats! This will also hopefully make you feel better! It is not as if we have sighted the doomsday asteroid in our telescopes and projected its path to earth.
Or 2) you will do it without hesitation (why not) and someone who is not feeling so gloomy will feel great without you actually having had to give anything. You will have done a very good deed that will make a difference in the time we have left!
it should really be everything you can possibly give in order to be a proper solution, because the alternate outcome is global doom.
This is a false dichotomy and a bad test; there are more reasons to feel hesitant than one’s belief in doom (such as strategic TDT considerations that remain live in the meantime) and the imaginary “Good” person you’ve constructed who feels great at this deal is not a coherent person.
Duncan, I am skeptical that you fully and deeply believe we are so doomed as you claim. So here’s a test: Make a contract with someone Good to give them all your assets* and become an minimally paid permanent laborer for them, in the case that foom/doom does not occur in your expected timeframes. One of two things will now happen: 1) You will hesitate to do this, which proves you are not so sure and some part of you is being a boogeyman. You outed him! Congrats! This will also hopefully make you feel better! It is not as if we have sighted the doomsday asteroid in our telescopes and projected its path to earth.
Or 2) you will do it without hesitation (why not) and someone who is not feeling so gloomy will feel great without you actually having had to give anything. You will have done a very good deed that will make a difference in the time we have left!
it should really be everything you can possibly give in order to be a proper solution, because the alternate outcome is global doom.
This is a false dichotomy and a bad test; there are more reasons to feel hesitant than one’s belief in doom (such as strategic TDT considerations that remain live in the meantime) and the imaginary “Good” person you’ve constructed who feels great at this deal is not a coherent person.