I see the valuable part of this question not as what you’d do with unlimited magical power, but as more akin to the earlier question asked by Eliezer: what would you do with $10 trillion? That leaves you making trade-offs, using current technology, and still deciding between what would make you personally happy, and what kind of world you want to live in.
Once you’ve figured out a little about what trade-offs between personal happiness and changing the world you’d make with (practically) unlimited (but non-magical) resources, you can reflect that back down to how you spend your minutes and your days. You don’t make the same trade-offs on a regular salary, but you can start thinking about how much of what you’re doing is to make the world a better place, and how much is to make your self or your family happier or more comfortable.
I don’t know how Eli expects to get an FAI to take our individual trade-offs among our goals into account, but since my goals for the wider world involve more freedom and less coercion, I can think about how I spend my time and see if I’m applying the excess over keeping my life in balance to pushing the world in the right direction.
Surely you’ve thought about what the right direction looks like?
I see the valuable part of this question not as what you’d do with unlimited magical power, but as more akin to the earlier question asked by Eliezer: what would you do with $10 trillion? That leaves you making trade-offs, using current technology, and still deciding between what would make you personally happy, and what kind of world you want to live in.
Once you’ve figured out a little about what trade-offs between personal happiness and changing the world you’d make with (practically) unlimited (but non-magical) resources, you can reflect that back down to how you spend your minutes and your days. You don’t make the same trade-offs on a regular salary, but you can start thinking about how much of what you’re doing is to make the world a better place, and how much is to make your self or your family happier or more comfortable.
I don’t know how Eli expects to get an FAI to take our individual trade-offs among our goals into account, but since my goals for the wider world involve more freedom and less coercion, I can think about how I spend my time and see if I’m applying the excess over keeping my life in balance to pushing the world in the right direction.
Surely you’ve thought about what the right direction looks like?