(I’ve decided my policy of updating this post is to a) on one hand, leave the general structure as a time capsule of my thoughts at the time I posted, but b) add clarifications and caveats that were obviously part of my original thinking, I just hadn’t bothered to put in the initial draft. Right now I just added that when I say ‘think about it more first’ I mean ‘for like a thousand years’, not like ‘I think this draft of an idea is almost ready to go’)
(I’m not sure whether, when I wrote ‘infinite energy’ I meant “actually infinite”, or just “a fucking lot of energy, enough that ‘try to be actively good to Hitler’ rises to the top of my priority queue. I wrote this in 2020 and dusted off the draft this week. Realistically I don’t actually expect to have literal infinite energy)
(I’ve decided my policy of updating this post is to a) on one hand, leave the general structure as a time capsule of my thoughts at the time I posted, but b) add clarifications and caveats that were obviously part of my original thinking, I just hadn’t bothered to put in the initial draft. Right now I just added that when I say ‘think about it more first’ I mean ‘for like a thousand years’, not like ‘I think this draft of an idea is almost ready to go’)
(I’m not sure whether, when I wrote ‘infinite energy’ I meant “actually infinite”, or just “a fucking lot of energy, enough that ‘try to be actively good to Hitler’ rises to the top of my priority queue. I wrote this in 2020 and dusted off the draft this week. Realistically I don’t actually expect to have literal infinite energy)