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.
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.