I guess that if you survive and other people don’t, it instinctively pattern-matches to you causing their death. Even if it does not make sense, and you know it. Maybe it’s a broken algorithm for determining outside view—if you go somewhere with a group of people, you return and they are dead, you should expect other people to suspect you; therefore you’d rather show some extremely strong self-destructive emotion to convince them game-theoretically that you did not benefit from that outcome.
If we get immortality, we can expect a lot of survivor guilt. Also, it will seriously ruin the just world hypothesis, if some people will get 3^^^3 more utilons just for the fact they were born in the right era and did not die randomly a few years sooner.
Hmmm. These are really good points. I do feel guilty about the idea of living a really long time while a lot of others don’t. That may be what triggered my first big objection—that you could save a lot of people with that money. Now I wonder if that objection was a rationalization of some type of survivor’s guilt. I think that this is likely. Very good point. Now I’m wondering what the nature of this survivor’s guilt is, for me.
I still feel survivor’s guilt, actually. Even though it’s not attached to a specific objection any longer—the objection about saving starving children has been rebutted.
Possibly related: Survivor guilt
I guess that if you survive and other people don’t, it instinctively pattern-matches to you causing their death. Even if it does not make sense, and you know it. Maybe it’s a broken algorithm for determining outside view—if you go somewhere with a group of people, you return and they are dead, you should expect other people to suspect you; therefore you’d rather show some extremely strong self-destructive emotion to convince them game-theoretically that you did not benefit from that outcome.
If we get immortality, we can expect a lot of survivor guilt. Also, it will seriously ruin the just world hypothesis, if some people will get 3^^^3 more utilons just for the fact they were born in the right era and did not die randomly a few years sooner.
Hmmm. These are really good points. I do feel guilty about the idea of living a really long time while a lot of others don’t. That may be what triggered my first big objection—that you could save a lot of people with that money. Now I wonder if that objection was a rationalization of some type of survivor’s guilt. I think that this is likely. Very good point. Now I’m wondering what the nature of this survivor’s guilt is, for me.
I still feel survivor’s guilt, actually. Even though it’s not attached to a specific objection any longer—the objection about saving starving children has been rebutted.
New objection—Survivor’s Guilt
That’s already seen as a fallacy isn’t it?
Well, more relevantly it’s seemingly assumed by most of the population.