One mood I have for handling “AGI ruin”-feelings. I like cultivating an updateless sense of courage/stoicism: Out of all humans and out of all times, I live here; before knowing where I’d open my eyes, I’d want people like us to work hard and faithfully in times like this; I imagine trillions of future eyes looking back at me as I look forward to them: Me implementing a policy which makes their existence possible, them implementing a policy which makes the future worth looking forward to.
Something about the updatelessness of “if I had to decide when I was still beyond the veil of ignorance, I would obviously think it was worth working as hard as feasible in the tiny sliver of probability that I wake up on the cusp of the hinge of history, regardless of how doomed things seem.”
It’s a reminder that even if things seem super doomed, and it might feel like I have no leverage to fix things, I actually actually one of the tiny number of beings that has the most leverage, when I zoom out across time.
One mood I have for handling “AGI ruin”-feelings. I like cultivating an updateless sense of courage/stoicism: Out of all humans and out of all times, I live here; before knowing where I’d open my eyes, I’d want people like us to work hard and faithfully in times like this; I imagine trillions of future eyes looking back at me as I look forward to them: Me implementing a policy which makes their existence possible, them implementing a policy which makes the future worth looking forward to.
Huh. This was quite helpful / motivating for me.
Something about the updatelessness of “if I had to decide when I was still beyond the veil of ignorance, I would obviously think it was worth working as hard as feasible in the tiny sliver of probability that I wake up on the cusp of the hinge of history, regardless of how doomed things seem.”
It’s a reminder that even if things seem super doomed, and it might feel like I have no leverage to fix things, I actually actually one of the tiny number of beings that has the most leverage, when I zoom out across time.
Thanks for writing this.
Looks like acausal deal with future people. That is like RB, but for humans.
RB?
RocoBasilisk
‘I will give you something good’, seems very different from ‘give me what I want or (negative outcome)’.