I have a decently strong sense that I would end up suffering from similar mental health issues. I think it has a lot to do with a tendency to Take Ideas Seriously. Or, viewed less charitably, having a memetic immune disorder.
Xrisk and, a term that is new to me, srisk, are both really bad things. They’re also quite plausible. Multiplying how bad they are by how likely they are, I think the rational feeling is some form of terror. (In some sense of the term “rational”. Too much terror of course would get in the way of trying to fix it, and of living a happy life.) It reminds me of how in HPMoR, everyone’s patronus was an animal, because death is too much for a human to bear.
I have a decently strong sense that I would end up suffering from similar mental health issues. I think it has a lot to do with a tendency to Take Ideas Seriously. Or, viewed less charitably, having a memetic immune disorder.
Xrisk and, a term that is new to me, srisk, are both really bad things. They’re also quite plausible. Multiplying how bad they are by how likely they are, I think the rational feeling is some form of terror. (In some sense of the term “rational”. Too much terror of course would get in the way of trying to fix it, and of living a happy life.) It reminds me of how in HPMoR, everyone’s patronus was an animal, because death is too much for a human to bear.