So where can I find anecdotes about how awesome and fun it is to be saving the world through FAI research and how rewarding it is to see your work have a direct impact, so I have something vicariously available to imagine when you ask me to donate my time?
I don’t know what donating my time to SI would entail other than writing, so find it difficult to imagine in a positive frame. I may be able to get around this by training myself on the five-second level to instead mentally contrast a charity’s desired future outcomes with the present (or your favorite charity’s desired future outcomes, when tempted to switch) when asked, but how many others in my position will do so?
So where can I find anecdotes about how awesome and fun it is to be saving the world through FAI research and how rewarding it is to see your work have a direct impact, so I have something vicariously available to imagine when you ask me to donate my time?
Happy post-singularity science fiction, maybe.
Surely Eliezer has some of that lying around somewhere...
Is there any reason anecdotes you can just make up yourself would be less effective?
I don’t know what donating my time to SI would entail other than writing, so find it difficult to imagine in a positive frame. I may be able to get around this by training myself on the five-second level to instead mentally contrast a charity’s desired future outcomes with the present (or your favorite charity’s desired future outcomes, when tempted to switch) when asked, but how many others in my position will do so?
Looks like there are a lot at the Rationality Boot Camp Blog.