I’d love to do this, but would have a hard time paying out because, for reasons beyond my control and caused by other people’s irrationality, I’m on SSI (although that might change in a few years). In the US people can’t save more than $2000 in liquid assets without losing their benefits, so I can’t take much, and probably wouldn’t be able to pay out because every transaction must be justified to the government, and although small purchases for entertainment would go through I’d have a hard time defending paying $1000 or whatever on a bet. Also, I’ve tried to work around this with crypto and lost all I paid in a scam.
I was thinking about just lying about what I could pay back, but being alienated by what seems to be the only sane and good community on the planet would be a much bigger cost. (Other people try to be sane and good, and the lesson I’ve learned is that “ethics” is what people talk about when they are about to make things worse for everyone except for the rationalist community).
I’d love to do this, but would have a hard time paying out because, for reasons beyond my control and caused by other people’s irrationality, I’m on SSI (although that might change in a few years). In the US people can’t save more than $2000 in liquid assets without losing their benefits, so I can’t take much, and probably wouldn’t be able to pay out because every transaction must be justified to the government, and although small purchases for entertainment would go through I’d have a hard time defending paying $1000 or whatever on a bet. Also, I’ve tried to work around this with crypto and lost all I paid in a scam.
I was thinking about just lying about what I could pay back, but being alienated by what seems to be the only sane and good community on the planet would be a much bigger cost. (Other people try to be sane and good, and the lesson I’ve learned is that “ethics” is what people talk about when they are about to make things worse for everyone except for the rationalist community).