Yes, but your post seemed to focus on the individual, and that’s why I didn’t mention future humanity.
For humanity, it did go from no doom to maybe doom which is worse. And perhaps it’s worse for the individual in the long run too, but that’s a lot more speculative.
In any case, there’s still some hope left that our luck will last long enough to avoid doom, even if it will be by the skin of our teeth.
Neither of these suggestions (nor the one in the sub-comment) are useful for what I had in mind. The goal is not have ways of staying positive no matter what—such as by looking for silver linings irrespectively of whether they are there or not. I expect this would give me incentives against looking at the world clearly. Rather, the hard constraint is to keep my beliefs as close to reality as I can, and the question is how to do that without becoming emotionally detached.
Ty for the comment, I will rephrase the original question to clarify.
Until very recently, it was doom for every individual. Maybe-doom is a vast improvement.
And whatever happens, we’ll have the privilege of knowing how human history will have turned out.
There is value in future of civilization, which senescence doesn’t threaten.
Yes, but your post seemed to focus on the individual, and that’s why I didn’t mention future humanity.
For humanity, it did go from no doom to maybe doom which is worse. And perhaps it’s worse for the individual in the long run too, but that’s a lot more speculative.
In any case, there’s still some hope left that our luck will last long enough to avoid doom, even if it will be by the skin of our teeth.
In that case, that was a misleading phrasing on my part. This is more about humanity than about an individual.
Neither of these suggestions (nor the one in the sub-comment) are useful for what I had in mind. The goal is not have ways of staying positive no matter what—such as by looking for silver linings irrespectively of whether they are there or not. I expect this would give me incentives against looking at the world clearly. Rather, the hard constraint is to keep my beliefs as close to reality as I can, and the question is how to do that without becoming emotionally detached.
Ty for the comment, I will rephrase the original question to clarify.