And so LessWrong discovers that identity is a relational construct created through interactions with the social fabric within and around a subjective boundary active inference-style markov blanket...
For what it’s worth, I didn’t see your post as doom-y, especially not when you pointed out the frameworks of the stories we are sort of autopiloting onto. The heroes of those stories do heroically overthrow the mind controlling villains, but they’re not doing it so that they can wipe the universe of value. Quite the opposite, they are doing it to create a better world (usually, especially in sci fi, with the explicit remit for many different kinds of life to coexist peacefully).
So perhaps it is not humanity that is doomed, merely the frightened, rich, and powerful wizards who for a time pulled at the strings of fate, and sought to paint over the future seize the lightcone.
And so LessWrong discovers that identity is a relational construct created through interactions with the social fabric within and around a
subjective boundaryactive inference-style markov blanket...For what it’s worth, I didn’t see your post as doom-y, especially not when you pointed out the frameworks of the stories we are sort of autopiloting onto. The heroes of those stories do heroically overthrow the mind controlling villains, but they’re not doing it so that they can wipe the universe of value. Quite the opposite, they are doing it to create a better world (usually, especially in sci fi, with the explicit remit for many different kinds of life to coexist peacefully).
So perhaps it is not humanity that is doomed, merely the frightened, rich, and powerful wizards who for a time pulled at the strings of fate, and sought to
paint over the futureseize the lightcone.