"If one seriously believes that one has ~2 years left where either you die, or actions will become insignificant, what should one do?"
I don't believe this. I think in most possible worlds where AI does not extinct us, human actions will still be roughly as significant as they are now*. The distributions will all be different of course, and probably more skewed. But there is still lots of room to do impactful work.
* One exception is a world with competing multipolar ASIs where there is little slack, but I am skeptical about the feasibility of creating an ASI that does not extinct humans and is also so omniscient that human preferences and actions about the future don't matter.
"Everyone talks about how life is short but nobody talks about how life is really really long"
Our lives have been long through many years lived, moments experienced, and memories made. Who knows how much longer we can last and how much more of life we can enjoy?
Our lives can shrink or stretch well beyond even our most researched predictions. That leaves me thinking about how your prescription to live life with whimsy embraces not only the inevitability of death, but the gift that is the present.
no. FFS is still just too expensive and it takes like a year to look good anyway, by then it will already basically be over and I'll have no time to even enjoy it
> Put on the cat ears you always wanted to wear.
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"If one seriously believes that one has ~2 years left where either you die, or actions will become insignificant, what should one do?"
I don't believe this. I think in most possible worlds where AI does not extinct us, human actions will still be roughly as significant as they are now*. The distributions will all be different of course, and probably more skewed. But there is still lots of room to do impactful work.
* One exception is a world with competing multipolar ASIs where there is little slack, but I am skeptical about the feasibility of creating an ASI that does not extinct humans and is also so omniscient that human preferences and actions about the future don't matter.
The problem with even short timelines is that any timeline isn't guaranteed. On the other hand, see Tyler's note on life:
https://substack.com/@tyleralterman/note/c-227878864
"Everyone talks about how life is short but nobody talks about how life is really really long"
Our lives have been long through many years lived, moments experienced, and memories made. Who knows how much longer we can last and how much more of life we can enjoy?
Our lives can shrink or stretch well beyond even our most researched predictions. That leaves me thinking about how your prescription to live life with whimsy embraces not only the inevitability of death, but the gift that is the present.
no. FFS is still just too expensive and it takes like a year to look good anyway, by then it will already basically be over and I'll have no time to even enjoy it
Thanks for sharing, think I’ve reached more or less the same conclusions and am trying my best to live by them
life is short. live it