Given this philosophy, you should gorge yourself on donuts, spend your life’s savings on expensive cars and prostitutes, and die with a smile on your face.
“Donuts. Cars. Prostitutes. A Jedi craves not these things.”
The thing to do is to manage your remaining time as best you can in support of whatever your values are. Well, that came out a bit dry. I suppose “live life to the fullest” is another way of putting it, except that it is generally taken as recommending frivolous hedonism.
If currently your life is one of irksome toil to build a better future life, then you might as well take the better life now, if your current accumulation of money will cover its brief remainder.
If your current life is one of donuts, cars, and prostitutes, in the expectation of assuming a more sober life later, you might move in the opposite direction.
If your life consists of the work that you want to happen for its own sake, without longing for the day when you can set down the burden, then a shorter life will only have implications for how to best support that work with the remainder.
If you’re already leading a life of frivolous hedonism and see no reason not to continue, you’re probably not reading LessWrong.
ETA: I know how long the company I have my pension arrangements with expects me to live. It’s not 6 months, but it’s not 70 years either.
That’s “expects” in the statistical sense: the mean of a distribution, which says nothing about its shape.
“Donuts. Cars. Prostitutes. A Jedi craves not these things.”
The thing to do is to manage your remaining time as best you can in support of whatever your values are. Well, that came out a bit dry. I suppose “live life to the fullest” is another way of putting it, except that it is generally taken as recommending frivolous hedonism.
If currently your life is one of irksome toil to build a better future life, then you might as well take the better life now, if your current accumulation of money will cover its brief remainder.
If your current life is one of donuts, cars, and prostitutes, in the expectation of assuming a more sober life later, you might move in the opposite direction.
If your life consists of the work that you want to happen for its own sake, without longing for the day when you can set down the burden, then a shorter life will only have implications for how to best support that work with the remainder.
If you’re already leading a life of frivolous hedonism and see no reason not to continue, you’re probably not reading LessWrong.
ETA: I know how long the company I have my pension arrangements with expects me to live. It’s not 6 months, but it’s not 70 years either.
That’s “expects” in the statistical sense: the mean of a distribution, which says nothing about its shape.
Counter-example here! ;)