Good points. I was imagining some successful slow takeoff scenario where there’s a period of post-scarcity with basically human control of the future (reminds me of the Greg Egan story Border Guards.). But late into a slow takeoff, or full-on post-singleton, the full transhumanist package will be realizable.
I’m not so sure that learning to love numbers at the expense of my current hobbies is all that great an idea. Sure, my future self would like it, but right now I don’t love numbers that much. I think a successful future would need some anti-wireheading guardrails that would make it difficult to learn to love math in a way that really eclipsed all your previous interests.
Eh. I think it might fit in nicely under the time you might currently spend doing a crossword puzzle or sudoku. Living for longer arguably allows for ‘doing something just for a little while’ paying off in a bigger way (where it was previously more constrained by lifetime length).
Also to some extent there’s ‘integration’ - better memory doesn’t necessarily mean you love memorizing things for contests, and ‘that’s the only thing do now’. Maybe instead you just bake without a recipe if you want to do something you’ve done before. Or you remember more sports plays and use them despite continuing to play ‘just for fun’.
If you gained more appreciation for artwork, that wouldn’t necessarily ‘change your entire life’. Instead you might go to an art museum once in a while.
(I also don’t see why you’re afraid of becoming an artist. Oh no, my values might change and I might become Michelangelo! What? Why are you already worried about that? Do you think you are predisposed to getting addicted to that? Why?
Are you a recovering mathematician or something? (I also don’t know what your hobbies are, and why they wouldn’t mix with each other—math problems have to come from somewhere.)
Good points. I was imagining some successful slow takeoff scenario where there’s a period of post-scarcity with basically human control of the future (reminds me of the Greg Egan story Border Guards.). But late into a slow takeoff, or full-on post-singleton, the full transhumanist package will be realizable.
I’m not so sure that learning to love numbers at the expense of my current hobbies is all that great an idea. Sure, my future self would like it, but right now I don’t love numbers that much. I think a successful future would need some anti-wireheading guardrails that would make it difficult to learn to love math in a way that really eclipsed all your previous interests.
Eh. I think it might fit in nicely under the time you might currently spend doing a crossword puzzle or sudoku. Living for longer arguably allows for ‘doing something just for a little while’ paying off in a bigger way (where it was previously more constrained by lifetime length).
Also to some extent there’s ‘integration’ - better memory doesn’t necessarily mean you love memorizing things for contests, and ‘that’s the only thing do now’. Maybe instead you just bake without a recipe if you want to do something you’ve done before. Or you remember more sports plays and use them despite continuing to play ‘just for fun’.
TL:DR;
If you gained more appreciation for artwork, that wouldn’t necessarily ‘change your entire life’. Instead you might go to an art museum once in a while.
(I also don’t see why you’re afraid of becoming an artist. Oh no, my values might change and I might become Michelangelo! What? Why are you already worried about that? Do you think you are predisposed to getting addicted to that? Why?
Are you a recovering mathematician or something? (I also don’t know what your hobbies are, and why they wouldn’t mix with each other—math problems have to come from somewhere.)
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