OP hasn’t asked you to do anything; just presented some information that he hopes will help people trying to stop global catastrophic risks. If that’s not a thing you want to do, it’s just not addressed to you.
(You sound very angry and upset. This probably isn’t a helpful thing to say right now, but I’ll say it anyway: if you can get less angry that will probably help you be less upset.)
I have spent 9 years writing texts about x-risks prevention. I spent a lot of money on it and lost a lot of business opportunities. I have been cheated all the time, in business, relationship and even science field. I have been humiliated in sexual field many times. I thought about suicide even I consider it impossible because of quantum immortality.
I thought to stop doing it many times. Nobody reads my texts and even if some one is reading it has zero influence on total probability of extinction.
But… I just return to my computer and continue to work on the texts in mornings, and try to have parties in evening.
In fact solving complex intellectual problems provides me with consistent many hours pleasure. Relationship thing do the opposite.
I wouldn’t be so sure that no one is reading what you write. Powerful people have little incentive to let it be known that they read odd websites like Less Wrong, but I assume they sometimes waste time browsing the internet like the rest of us. And insofar as high IQ and rationality are related to business success, it makes sense that wealthy people would disproportionately have LWish cognitive profiles and be interested in reading things LWers are interested in. There are a number of wealthy software entrepreneurs who have given large amounts to MIRI, for instance (Thiel, Tallin, McCaleb).
This doesn’t seem to have much to do with the OP.
Out of what?
OP wants me to help stop global catastrophic risks.
It’s illegal to hurt the people who created the global catastrophic risks, so count me out. I don’t work for free. I’d rather enjoy a nice life.
OP hasn’t asked you to do anything; just presented some information that he hopes will help people trying to stop global catastrophic risks. If that’s not a thing you want to do, it’s just not addressed to you.
(You sound very angry and upset. This probably isn’t a helpful thing to say right now, but I’ll say it anyway: if you can get less angry that will probably help you be less upset.)
True. Voldemort would have spent less time sulking than I have.
I have spent 9 years writing texts about x-risks prevention. I spent a lot of money on it and lost a lot of business opportunities. I have been cheated all the time, in business, relationship and even science field. I have been humiliated in sexual field many times. I thought about suicide even I consider it impossible because of quantum immortality.
I thought to stop doing it many times. Nobody reads my texts and even if some one is reading it has zero influence on total probability of extinction.
But… I just return to my computer and continue to work on the texts in mornings, and try to have parties in evening. In fact solving complex intellectual problems provides me with consistent many hours pleasure. Relationship thing do the opposite.
Thanks for your work.
I wouldn’t be so sure that no one is reading what you write. Powerful people have little incentive to let it be known that they read odd websites like Less Wrong, but I assume they sometimes waste time browsing the internet like the rest of us. And insofar as high IQ and rationality are related to business success, it makes sense that wealthy people would disproportionately have LWish cognitive profiles and be interested in reading things LWers are interested in. There are a number of wealthy software entrepreneurs who have given large amounts to MIRI, for instance (Thiel, Tallin, McCaleb).
Even if powerful people don’t browse themselves, people who have influence with them might.
I hope you continue to find happiness.
Do you consider hurting “the people who created the global catastrophic risks” payment?
No...Voldemort isn’t altruistic, and considers the “global community” too disorganized to be an ally worth seeking favor with.
...you do realize he is Voldemort? The one who acted to prevent, what he thought to be, the global catastrophic risk?
That makes it all OK, right?
Hooray! I can be sociopathically self-centered as long as I describe it in a politically-correct way!
No, that makes it inconsistent.