Vladimir_Nesov comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 October 2008 09:57:00AM 1 point [-]

You name specific excuses for why life in the future will be bad for you. It sounds like you see the future as a big abandoned factory, where you are a shadow, and the strange mechanisms do their spooky dance. Think instead of what changes could make the future right specifically for you, with tremendous amount of effort applied to this goal. You are just a human, so attention your comfort can get starts far above the order of whole of humanity thinking about every tiny gesture to make you a little bit more comfortable for millions of years, and thinking about it from your own point of view. There is huge potential for improvement in the joy of life, just like human intelligence is nowhere near the ten orders of magnitude from the top, human condition is nowhere near the most optimal. You can't trust your estimate of how limited the future will be, how impossible it will be for the future to find a creative solution to your problem. Give it a try.