The universe is so awesome and crazy and interesting and I can’t wait for when humanity is advanced enough to understand all of it. Until then I’ll be standing by for emotional support because I’m nowhere near smart enough to be doing any of that actually important stuff.
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yeah, the moment i looked at the big diagram my brain sort of pleasantly overheated
I think the flaw is how he claims this:
No one begins to truly search for the Way until their parents have failed them, their gods are dead, and their tools have shattered in their hand.
I think that these three things are not things that cause a desire for rationality, but things that rationality makes you notice.
why is this so downvoted? just curious
If I am not sufficiently terrified by the prospect of our extinction, I will not take as much steps to try and reduce its likelihood. If my subconscious does not internalize this sufficiently, I will not be as motivated. Said subconscious happiness affects my conscious reasoning without me consciously noticing.
[Question] how to truly feel my beliefs?
Harry’s brain tried to calculate the ramifications and implications of this and ran out of swap space.
this is very relatable
That’s a partial focus.
particularly girls
why!?
[Question] somebody explain the word “epistemic” to me
i’d pick dust & youtube. I intrinsically value fairness
The YouTube is pure happiness. The sublimity is some happiness and some value. Therefore I choose the sublimity, but if it was “Wireheading vs. Youtube”, or “Sublimity vs. seeing a motivational quote”, I would choose the YouTube or the motivational quote, because I intrinsically value fairness.
Ok, yeah, I don’t think the chances are much smaller than one in a million. But I do think the chances are not increased much by cryonics. Here, let me explain my reasoning.
I assume that eventually, humanity will fall into a topia (Tammy’s definition) or go extinct. Given that it does not go extinct, it will spend a very long amount of subjective time, possibly infinite, in said topia. In the event that this is some sort of brilliant paradise of maximum molecular fun where I can make stuff for eternity, we can probably reconstruct a person solely based on little bits of information left behind (like how we can reconstruct Proto-Indo-European from the bits and influences it leaves on our modern languages), so I consider the slightly improved chances of revival negligible even when compared to the massive length of time (possibly infinite, which is why this is a Pascal’s mugging) I would be living in such a world.
(Besides, the infiniteness is balanced out by the slightly increased chances of experiencing maximally horrible agony like in WYS.)
There’s also a chance that we figure out how to revive frozen people before reaching a topia, but that seems kind of low of a chance (and even then, completely nullified by the maybe-infinity we might spend our time in)
I could have completely flawed logic in my head. I’m sorta new to all this “thinking about the long term future” stuff you guys really like doing. Please correct me because I’m probably wrong.
[Question] (i no longer endorse this post) - cryonics is a pascal’s mugging?
[Question] is it possible to comment anonymously on a post?
What’s the meaning of life?
There is none. And that’s the best thing ever, because it means there’s no big crazy one true meaning that we all have to follow. We can do whatever we want.
[Question] is there a big dictionary somewhere with all your jargon and acronyms and whatnot?
Then what is the unit of Effort? Any ideas?
could this mean someone’s physical appearance could be infohazardous? If I believe that looking at someone will cause my terminal goals to be modified into wanting to be with them by limerence, then I won’t do so, because I want to spend my time making cool things and reducing the probability that we all die, and if I suddenly end up caring less about those things and just care about passing on my genes or whatever then that increases the odds that we all die, as well as decreasing the amount of cool things in the world leading up to that point.
Is this a joke? I’m confused.