I’ll agree with that from a different angle. Due to the map≠territory lemma, We never have to accept absolute inability to meet our goals. When faced with seemingly inescapable all-dimensional doom, there is no value at all in resigning oneself to it, the only value left in the universe is in that little vanishingly not-going-to-happen-unlikely possible world where, for example, the heat death can be prevented or escaped. Sure, what we know of thermodynamics tells us it can’t, well, I’m going to assume that there’s a loophole in our thermodynamic laws that we’re yet to notice. Pick me for damned, pick me for insane, these two groups are the same.
Now, if I’d based my goals on something even less ambiguous than physics, and it was mathematical certainty that I was not going to be able to meet any of them, I wouldn’t be able to justify denying my damnation, I’d collapse into actual debilitating madness if I tried that. So I don’t know what I would do in that case.
I’ll agree with that from a different angle. Due to the map≠territory lemma, We never have to accept absolute inability to meet our goals. When faced with seemingly inescapable all-dimensional doom, there is no value at all in resigning oneself to it, the only value left in the universe is in that little vanishingly not-going-to-happen-unlikely possible world where, for example, the heat death can be prevented or escaped. Sure, what we know of thermodynamics tells us it can’t, well, I’m going to assume that there’s a loophole in our thermodynamic laws that we’re yet to notice. Pick me for damned, pick me for insane, these two groups are the same.
Now, if I’d based my goals on something even less ambiguous than physics, and it was mathematical certainty that I was not going to be able to meet any of them, I wouldn’t be able to justify denying my damnation, I’d collapse into actual debilitating madness if I tried that. So I don’t know what I would do in that case.