But even if I did survive, that Hatchet-style life doesn’t sound very good.
Maybe. Maybe it will be the first time you really feel alive and some of the most exhilarating moments of your life. It’s better to wear out than to rust out, as our grandparents used to say.
In general humans suck at affective forecasting, so don’t discount this so quickly.
I, for one, want to see what happens. Even if it sucks. Even if it’s horrible. Even if most of the people I know and love are dead. I believe in humanity, and maybe I don’t make 1⁄2 copies of my genes but my species survives.
Yeah that’s an interesting thought. I like to think of myself as an adaptable person who can derive happiness from a wide variety of circumstances. But a Hatchet-style life is pretty extreme. My model of myself says it’s a good amount beyond my ability to adapt to circumstances and derive happiness. And as a reference class, thinking about what I recall from positive psychology studies, people tend to not be very happy when their basic needs aren’t met, and I think that points towards it being a thing the average person isn’t very good at.
Yeah… if this happens everyone will have to make their own choices. I may or may not regret mine. Sometimes I feel like the old man here. Like I’m not sure if you were around the Internet when it was a little more wild west. Sites with content like this (CW: euthanasia) were more common. I don’t want to be macabre or maudlin or put ideas in anyone’s head, but I thought about keeping some of the proven materials to implement that at my disposal given current events… But with the acceleration of things recently, it’s like there’s a pep in my step that I don’t remember feeling before. If there is a fight against Neo-Eurasianism (CW: novel left- and right-wing memetic miscegenation), I feel like it’s worth fighting against. If most people die and I survive, I feel like I have a duty to the future. Maybe you could call it a kind of Longtermism.
That being said, pep isn’t a reason to paint the devil on the wall. I really don’t want people I love to die. I don’t want innocent people to die. It could just be a happy death spiral and I don’t want to get carried away with it.
Anyway, that’s probably more self-disclosure than anyone signed up for. :)
Haha np :) That makes sense about euthanasia. I think most people would agree actually that there is a point where life isn’t worth living anymore. I think that and I can’t really think of too many people who are more anti-death than me.
Maybe. Maybe it will be the first time you really feel alive and some of the most exhilarating moments of your life. It’s better to wear out than to rust out, as our grandparents used to say.
In general humans suck at affective forecasting, so don’t discount this so quickly.
I, for one, want to see what happens. Even if it sucks. Even if it’s horrible. Even if most of the people I know and love are dead. I believe in humanity, and maybe I don’t make 1⁄2 copies of my genes but my species survives.
Yeah that’s an interesting thought. I like to think of myself as an adaptable person who can derive happiness from a wide variety of circumstances. But a Hatchet-style life is pretty extreme. My model of myself says it’s a good amount beyond my ability to adapt to circumstances and derive happiness. And as a reference class, thinking about what I recall from positive psychology studies, people tend to not be very happy when their basic needs aren’t met, and I think that points towards it being a thing the average person isn’t very good at.
Yeah… if this happens everyone will have to make their own choices. I may or may not regret mine. Sometimes I feel like the old man here. Like I’m not sure if you were around the Internet when it was a little more wild west. Sites with content like this (CW: euthanasia) were more common. I don’t want to be macabre or maudlin or put ideas in anyone’s head, but I thought about keeping some of the proven materials to implement that at my disposal given current events… But with the acceleration of things recently, it’s like there’s a pep in my step that I don’t remember feeling before. If there is a fight against Neo-Eurasianism (CW: novel left- and right-wing memetic miscegenation), I feel like it’s worth fighting against. If most people die and I survive, I feel like I have a duty to the future. Maybe you could call it a kind of Longtermism.
That being said, pep isn’t a reason to paint the devil on the wall. I really don’t want people I love to die. I don’t want innocent people to die. It could just be a happy death spiral and I don’t want to get carried away with it.
Anyway, that’s probably more self-disclosure than anyone signed up for. :)
Haha np :) That makes sense about euthanasia. I think most people would agree actually that there is a point where life isn’t worth living anymore. I think that and I can’t really think of too many people who are more anti-death than me.