KristenBurke

Whether we have a specific story of the future or not, we shouldn't assume a good outcome. But perhaps you're saying that we should at least have a vision of a good outcome in mind to steer toward.

Yes.

I think of absolutes as a fallacy (whet in the realm of utility as opposed to truth) -- it means you're not admitting trade-offs.

I may just not know of any principled ways of forming a set of outcomes to begin with, so that it may be treated as a lottery and so forth.

But it would seem that aesthetics or axiology must still have some role in the formati... (read more)

So at any level, you'd better get used to asking stupid questions.

It's probably just me but the Stack Exchange community seems to make this hard.

I think it would be nice if someone wrote a post on "visceral comparative advantage" giving tips on how to intuitively connect "the best thing I could be doing" with comparative advantage rather than absolute notions.

Yes, that would be nice. And personally speaking, it would be most dignifying if it could address (and maybe dissolve) those—probably less informed—intuitions about how ther... (read more)

I like how the book The Compound Effect makes you feel like anything is possible as long as you're consistent and get rid of bad habits.

yul, I think my worry is more about whether my past is a strong indication of my human maximum potential, and not as much whether I'll repeat the same poor decisions.

This does help, thank you. I'd come to similar judgments and maybe couldn't sustain them long because I didn't know of anyone else with them.

I think this also happens to help me ask my question better. What I'd also like to know:

What are the intended trajectories of people on the front-lines? Is it merging with super AIs to remain on the front-lines, or is it "gaming" in lower intelligence reservations structured by yet more social hierarchies and popularity contests? Is this a false dichotomy?

Neither is ultimately repugnant to me or anything. No... (read more)

This sounds like something I could maybe benefit from. But I still may need some prompting before this, which would lead to me doing this. I'm not yet sure. . . .

Due to a series of many poor decisions from my early teens to mid-twenties, I hadn't been able to muster up enough motivation, self-esteem, or whatever I needed to get back on the track I should've been on to begin with and get into a profession I could feel good about. But it could just be a too-low intelligence thing too.

This experience seems to have forever colored my ultimate outlook in a dolo... (read more)