I think the local version would be something like, “May my strength as a rationalist give me the ability to discern what I can and cannot change, and the determination to make a desperate effort at the latter when remaining uncertainty allows that this has the highest expected utility.”
(Where leaving out or replacing ‘strength as a rationalist’ makes the quote a whole lot more appealing to me if nobody else. Heck, even the jargon term ‘luminosity’ would feel better.)
I think the local version would be something like, “May my strength as a rationalist give me the ability to discern what I can and cannot change, and the determination to make a desperate effort at the latter when remaining uncertainty allows that this has the highest expected utility.”
(Where leaving out or replacing ‘strength as a rationalist’ makes the quote a whole lot more appealing to me if nobody else. Heck, even the jargon term ‘luminosity’ would feel better.)
That was beautiful. :)