But people don’t know that what they do isn’t worth doing, so “not worth” becomes a weasel word, prone to arbitrary interpretation. They do what they believe to be valuable, and what they do is valuable, the question is how valuable. It’s clearly not maximally valuable, but even a superintelligence won’t be able to do the maximally valuable thing, only the best it can, which is “the same” situation as with people.
Most big issues that people (especially males) spend time on are not really worth bothering with.
Don’t most of us believe this?
But people don’t know that what they do isn’t worth doing, so “not worth” becomes a weasel word, prone to arbitrary interpretation. They do what they believe to be valuable, and what they do is valuable, the question is how valuable. It’s clearly not maximally valuable, but even a superintelligence won’t be able to do the maximally valuable thing, only the best it can, which is “the same” situation as with people.