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Politics as entertainment
For many policy questions I normally foresee long term 'obvious' issues that will arise from them. However, I also believe in a Singularity of some sort in that same time frame. And when I re-frame the policy question as will this impact the Singularity or matter after the Singularity the answer is usually no to both.
Of course, there is always the chance of no Singularity but I don't give it much weight.
So my question is: Has anyone successfully moved beyond the policy questions (emotionally)? Follow up question: once you are beyond them do you look at them more as entertainment like which sports team is doing better? Or do you use them for signalling?
I just read a crapton of political news for a couple years until I was completely sick of it.
I also kind of live in a bubble, in terms of economic security, such that most policy debates don't realistically impact me.
High belief in a near singularity is unnecessary.
Overdosing on politics to become desensitized is genius. However, I seem to have too high of tolerance for it.
The singularity aspect is more of a personal inconsistency I need to address. I can't think that the long term stuff doesn't matter and have a strong opinion on the long term issues.