That’s helpful, thank you! Your mention of Fluid Dynamics was particularly nice.
Happy to share.
Part of is what I replied to ChristianKl: that I feel like every important thing should be reduced to thinking about EA or AI. This makes me think that I can’t find any new areas interesting because they’re not good, or should be eliminated to divert resources into one of those two items.
Another part, I think, is that previously, I could always discover a… greater… area of interest once I grew out of the old one. When I got good at video games, I could move on to try making friends, then to do volunteering, then to attend college, then to try living alone, but, once I started to seriously think through the Sequences, which made read other Yudkowsky’s writing, including, sigh, “The Road to Singularity”, the next thing then was “saving the world” and it doesn’t feel like I can get much further from there.
That’s helpful, thank you! Your mention of Fluid Dynamics was particularly nice.
Happy to share.
Part of is what I replied to ChristianKl: that I feel like every important thing should be reduced to thinking about EA or AI. This makes me think that I can’t find any new areas interesting because they’re not good, or should be eliminated to divert resources into one of those two items.
Another part, I think, is that previously, I could always discover a… greater… area of interest once I grew out of the old one. When I got good at video games, I could move on to try making friends, then to do volunteering, then to attend college, then to try living alone, but, once I started to seriously think through the Sequences, which made read other Yudkowsky’s writing, including, sigh, “The Road to Singularity”, the next thing then was “saving the world” and it doesn’t feel like I can get much further from there.