More serious reply: depending when you encountered me, I’d be more boring in some ways, since a lot of what I spend my time doing is towards a moral end. All the things I’ve learned in life I learned from trying to live in a moral universe. I would never have gotten a degree, I did that virtually entirely for what I perceived to be reasons of altruism. Since I’m assuming here that everyone else will continue to live under the illusion that they are in such a universe, and that only I leave it...even it were merely 2008 when I encountered this revelation, I would have not donated so much to charity, I would have not gone into teaching children science...my whole of my thereafter short life would have been hedonism, torture, probably serial rape/murder and hard drugs. I wouldn’t have lived with decent, hardworking people—I’d probably have been kidnapped by gangsters or something and OD’d on heroin by now. I sure wouldn’t care about the state of my country, my family, or mathematics or anything like that.
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More serious reply: depending when you encountered me, I’d be more boring in some ways, since a lot of what I spend my time doing is towards a moral end. All the things I’ve learned in life I learned from trying to live in a moral universe. I would never have gotten a degree, I did that virtually entirely for what I perceived to be reasons of altruism. Since I’m assuming here that everyone else will continue to live under the illusion that they are in such a universe, and that only I leave it...even it were merely 2008 when I encountered this revelation, I would have not donated so much to charity, I would have not gone into teaching children science...my whole of my thereafter short life would have been hedonism, torture, probably serial rape/murder and hard drugs. I wouldn’t have lived with decent, hardworking people—I’d probably have been kidnapped by gangsters or something and OD’d on heroin by now. I sure wouldn’t care about the state of my country, my family, or mathematics or anything like that.