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Are you sure this is optimal? You seem to have goals but have thrown away three potentially useful tools: reward mechanisms, primate dominance rituals and zero-sum competitions. Obviously you've gained grit.
Optimal by what criteria? And what right do I have to assign criteria for 'optimal'? I have neither power nor charisma; criteria are chosen by those with the power to enforce an agenda.
By the same right that you assign criteria according to which primate dominance rituals or competitive zero-sum exchanges are bad.
Some people might value occupying a particular mental state for its own sake, but that wasn't what I was talking about here. I was talking purely instrumentally - your interest in existential risk suggests you have goals or long term preferences about the world (although I understand that I may have got this wrong), and I was contemplating what might help you achieve those and what might stand in your way.
Just to clarify - is it my assessment of you as an aspiring utility maximizer that I'm wrong about, or am I right about that but wrong about something at the strategic level? (Or fundamentally misunderstanding your preferences)