Reading about Dath Ilan[1] makes me homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I want to live in a society like that. And I feel like, on the real Earth, I would be pretty fulfilled in a career where I was helping to bring it about, even if we only made Earth-realistic progress.
I used to think that I was born in a wrong century, that I would more fit in some kind of future world.
(That was before I heard of an AI risk, and anti-utopias in general.)
Now it seems like a wrong planet, or possibly a wrong Everett branch.
(Wouldn’t it be quite sad if a paperclip-maximizer wave traveling at the speed of light started on Earth and eventually reached Dath Ilan on the opposite side of the universe?)
Reading about Dath Ilan[1] makes me homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I want to live in a society like that. And I feel like, on the real Earth, I would be pretty fulfilled in a career where I was helping to bring it about, even if we only made Earth-realistic progress.
A fictional world that Eliezer Yudkowsky pretends to be from on April Fool’s day sometimes, where everything works better because people are better at coordinating.
I used to think that I was born in a wrong century, that I would more fit in some kind of future world.
(That was before I heard of an AI risk, and anti-utopias in general.)
Now it seems like a wrong planet, or possibly a wrong Everett branch.
(Wouldn’t it be quite sad if a paperclip-maximizer wave traveling at the speed of light started on Earth and eventually reached Dath Ilan on the opposite side of the universe?)