While I’m probably unlikely/unskilled to personally craft AGI, I certainly spend effort theorycrafting AGI systems and think about doing so due to feeling incredibly disenfranchised (not actually particularly seeing AGI as a hugely negative thing even if my doom% was 99%). Although there are a few people I’ve talked to who don’t feel Slighted but are maybe oddly ambivalent about AGI/ASI creation due to “climate change, constant new wars, loneliness and addictions, WW3 indicator” and not feeling like it would lead to doom (edit: to clarify, both the mentalities of “not really believing AGI/ASI would lead to doom” + thinking the non-AGI track of the world is already not on a good path so ‘whatever, bring on the AGI’).
Although there are a few people I’ve talked to who don’t feel Slighted but are maybe oddly ambivalent about AGI/ASI creation due to “climate change, constant new wars, loneliness and addictions, WW3 indicator” and not feeling like it would lead to doom
Interesting. I guess feeling disenfranchised often leads one to being Slighted, but doesn’t necessarily, since one could instead just do some kind of giving up. (One could also do other things, such as maybe finding other hopeworthy long-term shared intentions with other people to invest in.)
(I edited my comment to clarify that these people I mention aren’t necessarily ‘disenfranchised’ or even emotionally disturbed/unhappy people. But yeah I guess ‘giving up’ could fit, that also includes perhaps current 10-18 year olds who still treat the life track they’re on as “normal” who still see these big world events as very abstract and sort of imaginary, as not something that impacts them)
I fully agree with this and felt like it was sniping me through the screen in one of your previous articles about it lol ( https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2025/11/hia-and-x-risk-part-1-why-it-helps.html#abundance-makes-a-healthier-society—the part going ‘Fewer smart kids traumatized into researching AGI capabilities’ is like the precursor to this idea)
While I’m probably unlikely/unskilled to personally craft AGI, I certainly spend effort theorycrafting AGI systems and think about doing so due to feeling incredibly disenfranchised (not actually particularly seeing AGI as a hugely negative thing even if my doom% was 99%). Although there are a few people I’ve talked to who don’t feel Slighted but are maybe oddly ambivalent about AGI/ASI creation due to “climate change, constant new wars, loneliness and addictions, WW3 indicator” and not feeling like it would lead to doom (edit: to clarify, both the mentalities of “not really believing AGI/ASI would lead to doom” + thinking the non-AGI track of the world is already not on a good path so ‘whatever, bring on the AGI’).
Interesting. I guess feeling disenfranchised often leads one to being Slighted, but doesn’t necessarily, since one could instead just do some kind of giving up. (One could also do other things, such as maybe finding other hopeworthy long-term shared intentions with other people to invest in.)
(I edited my comment to clarify that these people I mention aren’t necessarily ‘disenfranchised’ or even emotionally disturbed/unhappy people. But yeah I guess ‘giving up’ could fit, that also includes perhaps current 10-18 year olds who still treat the life track they’re on as “normal” who still see these big world events as very abstract and sort of imaginary, as not something that impacts them)