Miranda wanted this song as part of our 3rd wedding anniversary ceremony and I had the same complaint Habryka does. I think we had it but changed it slightly?
The interpretations you mention seem reasonable but still feels like the straightforward interpretation is of someone saying they don’t expect to have the result for themselves in a way that feels fatalist and false or something.
I mean, the important bit is that the epistemic state of most people is that you *won’t* have the result for yourself, and this was definitely true for most of human history and might still be true now. You need to have particular concrete beliefs about immortality being practical in your lifetime for the song’s fatalism to be anything other than straightforwardly true.
Yeah, I was going to edit the comment to try to more clearly get at the aesthetic cruxes at play (with someone different cruxes for: “Why the song resonates with me”, “Why I think it should at least not anti-resonate-with-Ruby”, and “Why I’d be somewhat sad if it anti-resonated-with-Ruby after we fully talked about it”)
Miranda wanted this song as part of our 3rd wedding anniversary ceremony and I had the same complaint Habryka does. I think we had it but changed it slightly?
The interpretations you mention seem reasonable but still feels like the straightforward interpretation is of someone saying they don’t expect to have the result for themselves in a way that feels fatalist and false or something.
I mean, the important bit is that the epistemic state of most people is that you *won’t* have the result for yourself, and this was definitely true for most of human history and might still be true now. You need to have particular concrete beliefs about immortality being practical in your lifetime for the song’s fatalism to be anything other than straightforwardly true.
Yeah, but I have those beliefs.
Yeah, I was going to edit the comment to try to more clearly get at the aesthetic cruxes at play (with someone different cruxes for: “Why the song resonates with me”, “Why I think it should at least not anti-resonate-with-Ruby”, and “Why I’d be somewhat sad if it anti-resonated-with-Ruby after we fully talked about it”)
But, then, that turned out to be a lot of work.