This is indeed how I've been living my life lately. I'm trying to avoid any unacceptable states like ending up in debt or without the ability to sustain myself if I'm wrong about everything but it's all short-term hedonism aside from that.
I fully agree with the Statement but also support Pause/Stop. The reason is that I'm highly confident that everyone dies if we achieve AGI in the near future, so since I'm still relatively young I prefer getting to live some more years instead.
The perspective in this post has been quite helpful to me for dealing with this and might work as a new thought paradigm if viewing these things as obligations is part of what is causing your stress. If the never-ending nature of the tasks itself is an issue, then perhaps this post can help with that.
The concepts page link in the "Exploring your interests" section seems wrong.
I think Dumbledore is right and the answer to this question is "Why not?". Dealing with chaos and complexity is intellectually stimulating as well, so there's no particular reason for Voldemort to not be evil if that's more fun than the alternative.
It's not that Voldemort is optimizing for evilness, it's just that he doesn't see a point to restricting his evil impulses as he pursues whatever goals he has, e.g. taking power to defend the magical world against the muggles.
We can also become grabby without being there anymore, e.g. the paperclip maximizer scenario.
How does animal cloning fit in the picture? Transposon count should be preserved as part of the DNA in the cloned animal and that seems to imply that we'd see accelerated aging, especially if the source cell has been taken from an aged animal. That doesn't seem to happen, though, cloned animals and their offspring appear to have normal lives and lifespans as long as they get past the early development process (https://doi.org/10.1159/000452444).
If this is the case, I wonder if we can use the side effects that we get from the vaccination as evidence on a personal level for whether we fall into the immune group. At a glance it seems that their presence would mean successful and strong activation of the immune response, so it would be more likely to end up working for us? Not sure if there is a correlation here and how strong it might be.
My own reason to prefer monogamy is that I'd like to be by far the most important person to my partner (other than themselves) in the same way that they would be the most important person to me. Polyamory would make the boundary between "us" and the rest of the world a bit less sharp and that doesn't seem worth the benefits (the first reason also applies to me, the benefits don't seem that great).