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One mood I have for handling "AGI ruin"-feelings. I like cultivating an updateless sense of courage/stoicism: Out of all humans and out of all times, I live here; before knowing where I'd open my eyes, I'd want people like us to work hard and faithfully in times like this; I imagine trillions of future eyes looking back at me as I look forward to them: Me implementing a policy which makes their existence possible, them implementing a policy which makes the future worth looking forward to.

Huh. This was quite helpful / motivating for me.

Something about the updatelessness of "if I had to decide when I was still beyond the veil of ignorance, I would obviously think it was worth working as hard as feasible in the tiny sliver of probability that I wake up on the cusp of the hinge of history, regardless of how doomed things seem."

It's a reminder that even if things seem super doomed, and it might feel like I have no leverage to fix things, I actually actually one of the tiny number of beings that has the most leverage, when I zoom out across time.

Thanks for writing this.

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'I will give you something good', seems very different from 'give me what I want or (negative outcome)'.

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