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A well-suited quest requires a delusional level of confidence and resilience. If it doesn't, it's too easy.
If you’re hyperaware of your finite time on Earth, adopt these traits early, even if you don't yet know what your music is. You'll be ready to pounce when you hear it.
There’s a compound effect to this: when you do something seemingly insane, you empower people in a similar context to take on their own version of insanity: the kind that gives their life meaning. So if you can’t do it for yourself, do it for them.
So then, what kinds of quests should we take? The ones that make us collectively less wrong. I like to (somewhat inaccurately) paraphrase about John Stuart Mill and his argument for broad autonomy when thinking about this:
the more people who speak, create, and introduce new and better ways of doing things, the closer we get to understanding what an optimal world looks like.
Different people will approach this in different ways and at different scales. Some might make us less wrong about our standards for great ballet; others make us more right about the proper path to AGI.
All of it matters. Find your quest, and don't be another cog in the machine. Whatever you do, determine that you will be the greatest at it.
A well-suited quest requires a delusional level of confidence and resilience. If it doesn't, it's too easy.
If you’re hyperaware of your finite time on Earth, adopt these traits early, even if you don't yet know what your music is. You'll be ready to pounce when you hear it.
There’s a compound effect to this: when you do something seemingly insane, you empower people in a similar context to take on their own version of insanity: the kind that gives their life meaning. So if you can’t do it for yourself, do it for them.
So then, what kinds of quests should we take? The ones that make us collectively less wrong. I like to (somewhat inaccurately) paraphrase about John Stuart Mill and his argument for broad autonomy when thinking about this:
the more people who speak, create, and introduce new and better ways of doing things, the closer we get to understanding what an optimal world looks like.
Different people will approach this in different ways and at different scales. Some might make us less wrong about our standards for great ballet; others make us more right about the proper path to AGI.
All of it matters. Find your quest, and don't be another cog in the machine. Whatever you do, determine that you will be the greatest at it.