Given that uncertainty, we should think seriously about the virtues and dangers of a world where LW-level rationality is as common as, today, literacy or religious disengagement is.
Yes, this is exactly what I’m trying to think about. You can’t know long-term historical trends in advance...but you have to make informed-ish decisions about what to try doing, and how to try doing it, anyway.
Yes, this is exactly what I’m trying to think about. You can’t know long-term historical trends in advance...but you have to make informed-ish decisions about what to try doing, and how to try doing it, anyway.