In case you were exposing a core uncertainty you had - ‘I want a) people to exist after me more than I want b) a MODEL that people exist after me, but my thinking incorporates b) instead of a); and that means my priorities are wrong’ - and it’s still troubling you, I’d like to suggest the opposite: if you have a model that predicts what you want, that’s perfect! Your model (I think) takes your experiences, feeds them into a Bayesian algo, and predicts the future—what better way is there to think? I mean, I lack such computing power and honesty...but if an honest computer takes my experiences and says, ‘Therefore, people exist after me,’ then my best possible guess is that people exist after me, and I can improve the chance of that using my model.
In case you were exposing a core uncertainty you had - ‘I want a) people to exist after me more than I want b) a MODEL that people exist after me, but my thinking incorporates b) instead of a); and that means my priorities are wrong’ - and it’s still troubling you, I’d like to suggest the opposite: if you have a model that predicts what you want, that’s perfect! Your model (I think) takes your experiences, feeds them into a Bayesian algo, and predicts the future—what better way is there to think? I mean, I lack such computing power and honesty...but if an honest computer takes my experiences and says, ‘Therefore, people exist after me,’ then my best possible guess is that people exist after me, and I can improve the chance of that using my model.